John Crawford Quotes (17 Quotes)

They said Saddam had the electricity in Baghdad back on two months after the first Iraq War. It'd been two years after the start of the war when I was there, and the greatest nation on Earth couldn't even keep the lights on. It's understandable they're upset.

I like to use a football analogy. A sports reporter can write in depth and give you a good idea of the game, but you really don't get it until you play it.

We have to have that finished by November of this year, in preparation for the 2007 election. We have already been working on that, but that's something that will occupy several meetings as we go through the year.

These are five wonderful boys, and what they did was an awesome, awesome thing. I hope they can do it again next year, and that will be enough for me.

Baghdad stinks. There's constant water in the street. There's no one to pick up the trash, so it all piles up outside. ... All the American toilet paper was clogging the Baghdad sewer system. It wasn't built to take it, so there's backed-up water everywhere and kids playing in it. Baghdad is just a dirty place.

There was a tragedy that occurred in the city tonight, and now we have to get to the bottom of it.

I feel that this lady can do the job. She has the backing of the auditor's office,

He (Smith) was written up under the dangerous animal code. The humane society didn't take any animals ... they decided they were legally in the kennel.

The laws are in place, the men understand all the laws, but freak accidents happen.

We were hesitant about it at first. But you get to see some well-rounded, educated guys who are doing this to raise money for a charity at the same time.

The Americans act like kids, basically. And the Iraqi people thought of us as big children.

I make the cheer-cisions and Ill deal with the cheer-onsequences.

When they heard I was writing a book, they all wanted to know if I was writing a 'super liberal' book. The ones I've talked to so far said they liked what I wrote.

There's also the change in gender roles, that men are more comfortable with telling how they feel and saying 'Oh, I was scared. This was terrible,' whereas 50 or 100 years ago you would never have got that,

We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, it was overpriced fuel trucked in by Halliburton from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,

I am so delighted. It's hard to talk about without choking up. We thought were in risk of losing our pristine bay.

Um, I'm doing an interview with Wisconsin Radio in a few minutes, and then I'm supposed to fly to Washington to do 'Hardball,' but I'm waiting to see what happens with the hurricane (Katrina). My life is really kind of surreal right now.