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Kate Adie has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but…
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name…
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have…
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we…
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in…
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone…
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Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous…
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its…
— Tony Blair
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One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with…
— George H. W. Bush
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I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send…
— George H. W. Bush
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The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
— Dick Cheney
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By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.
— Saddam Hussein
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We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
— Saddam Hussein
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I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in…
— Dick Cheney
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian…
— George J. Mitchell
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Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in…
— Saddam Hussein
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Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do…
— Saddam Hussein
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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