Israel Quotes by Seymour Hersh

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

— Seymour Hersh

If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological…

— Seymour Hersh

At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed.…

— Seymour Hersh

Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore…

— Seymour Hersh

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

— Seymour Hersh

We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of…

— Seymour Hersh

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is…

— Seymour Hersh

There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The general assumption,…

— Seymour Hersh

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

— Seymour Hersh

If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it…

— Seymour Hersh

I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one.

— Seymour Hersh

How can you have a security guarantee? The Europeans can give their security guarantees to Iran all they want in return for their stopping…

— Seymour Hersh

I don't know Condoleezza Rice personally. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and I'm sure she plays the piano well. But she was a…

— Seymour Hersh

And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with…

— Seymour Hersh

The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia. We did the one thing that George Kennan warned us never to do -…

— Seymour Hersh