Quotes from Brian Haig

They could rename this town shithole and be accused of putting on airs.

stereotypes are such dangerous stuff; they narrow your frame of mind, and shape your reference and behavior.

Katherine is a lawyer, as I said, and she doesn't lie; the truth, however, after it passes through her lips can be unrecognizable.

Unlike magnets, opposites do not necessarily attract; sometimes they merely bash one another to death.

doting, the guy on the sideline at

Guilt is a relative term, as are fairness, justice, and punishment.

I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.

The army has enough regulations that even Mother Teresa was guilty of something.

Men have two brains in constant warfare over the body's blood supply. When one wins, the other shuts down.

Predictably, Katherine's car was a leased Toyota Prius, what they call a hybrid, and, though I consider myself as sensitive to the assassination of our environment as anybody, Sean Drummond was not the least bit happy with this choice. The car didn't even require a key to get started, just this stupid button you push, then you can't even hear the engine, so after the fifth time I punched the button, Katherine said, "Stop that, Sean. The damned car is already started.

I recalled the old saw about why reporters always whistle when they are on the toilet; it's the only way they can remember which end to wipe.

enter." "This is a joke, right?

A man of few words is often a man of few thoughts; or he can be someone whose thoughts are best kept to himself.

Life is pitiless to the elderly.

I wanted to shake her awake and ask what she saw in Mr. Moneybags. But having now met him, he was everything most women dream of—handsome, filthy rich, smart, filthy rich, principled, filthy rich, and with a very pleasant personality.

THERE ARE times in life when the wrong thing to do is actually the right thing to do. Maybe vice versa, too. I don't know. I haven't gotten around to testing that theory yet.

So I nodded, which Fred took as an indication to continue. "Everything in the theater and the army was in chaos. Iraq exploded in violence. I was the deputy commandant at the Castle, and got overnight orders to proceed to Iraq on the next flight.

I was racing to pull on my pants, since it seemed ridiculous to be standing in my underwear as the deputy head of Russia's spy agency spilled his guts about some earthshaking plot.

Nearly all the best soldiers out there, if you scratched the surface, they all had a little bit of psychopath hidden somewhere in there. With some of them, you didn't have to scratch the surface real deep. A completely sane and balanced man is a fish out of water on a battlefield.

I stepped over toys and broken furniture and bits and parts of machinery until I entered what was supposed to be a living room, though it looked more like a storage bin for chaos.

Option one—whirl around

appeared on Fox News as a military analyst, and this is

When I see a nail, I reach for a hammer. They study the nail and obsess over whether it might actually be, or could possibly be turned into, a bolt or a screw, and then they try playing mind games. As often as not, the nail screws them.