"There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force."

"No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration."

"So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities."

"After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq."

"I don't want my learning curve to be stunted by just all of a sudden doing work all the time and not being careful about the work that I'm doing."

"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."

"If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one."

"Procrastination is the thief of time."