15 quotes
To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
It wasn't that people were antagonistic; it was more that they were accustomed to doing their work in a certain way, and change always causes some people to be uncomfortable.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
I was deeply grieved and suddenly depleted by a draining weariness. This day had been a nightmare, and I had not yet been asleep.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but the critics don't always realize what they don't know or don't understand, because they don't have access to all the information.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
Soldiers defending a country at war are not subject to the rules of procedure designed for court trials. For example, if a soldier encounters an enemy, under internationally agreed upon rules of war, that soldier can take whatever action is necessary to protect himself and neutralize his enemy, whether it involves capturing and detaining the enemy or killing him on the spot.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
I'm convinced that faith is a matter of inspiration, not a matter of imposition. It is something a person models rather than mandates. Faith does not impose itself on other people. Imposition usually sacrifices somebody else; it seeks to injure or extort others. This is what the terrorist does in an attempt to impose his religion on the world.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)
Politics disabuses a person of the notion that you can please everybody. It is an inescapable fact that people will always have different opinions, and some people are going to disagree. Sooner or later, a person constructs his or her own "platform" and stands on it, regardless of what others think, say, or do. It is also true that some people delight in another person's demise.
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006)