"It's easier to train someone to fly an F-14 than it is to speak Arabic."

"It's easier to train someone to fly an F-14 than it is to speak Arabic."
Kevin Hendzel
On the shortage of Arabic-Englishtranslators in Iraq.
"Every time we'd be there, we'd say that this would be a great place for a bomb."
Scott Dalton
A free-lance photojournalist who left the Bogota Beer Co. in Colombia not long before a grenade attack by leftist rebels.
"Can you imagine? An animal of more than 10 meters was unknown to us even in the 21st century."
Tadasu Yamada
Of Tokyo's National Science Museum on the discovery of a new species of whale.