War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of -… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
