"It's all based on human relations. We'll live and die by it. We want the population to cast the

"It's all based on human relations. We'll live and die by it. We want the population to cast the insurgents out."
Lt. Col. Peter A. Newell
Regarding a shift in U.S. strategy in Iraqi villages to focus on winning over local residents.
"My dad's high school education was interrupted by a civil war and they weren't sure they were going to eat the next day. And here I am in the United States wondering what I'm going to get for Christmas."
Emeka Okafor
The star center for the University of Connecticut basketball team, conceding that he has led an easy life compared with that of his father, who grew up in war-ravaged Nigeria.