“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 2, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“I think that not only is an Islamist attack.”
Source: Entrevista BBC Aznar, 24-07-2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLGnyZ_ES4&mode=related&search=<br>About the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings <br class="br">Context: You know in this moment some perpetrators of the attacks, but you do not know who imagined the attack, who is the leader of the attack who is the idea (sic) of the attack, who established and supported means for the attacks, who defined the logistics of the attacks, who established the strategies of the attack. Nothing... I think that one part of the perpetrators are Islamists, but I think that not only is an Islamist attack.
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Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
From an interview for Italian television (RAI) (10 March 1986) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106223 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.
Richard Benkin American journalist
Benkin, Richard L. (2012). A quiet case of ethnic cleansing: The murder of Bangladesh's Hindus. New Delhi: Akshaya Prakashan. p.142.
“I think for the first time we can attack the fundamental biology of man.”
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019) South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
[233. The exciting future of biology, Sydney Brenner, Web of Stories, https://www.webofstories.com/play/sydney.brenner/233]
Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji
Additional remarks about the proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, Address to the Editors' Forum, Suva, 27 July 2005
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
May 2
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“Only a fool would attack us.”
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) Soviet politician and diplomat
Statement of June 1941, as quoted in Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives (1993) by Alan Bullock, p. 715
Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger
"McCain's National Greatness Conservatism", The Daily Dish (26 February 2008) http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/02/mccains-national-greatness-conservatism/219614/ <br class="br">Context: In the Cold War, I was pro-American. The world needed a counter-weight to the evils of expansionist, imperial communism. (But I was never an American utopian. There's nothing new in humanity in this country — just a better system and more freedom, which tends to be the best corrective against sustained error.) After the Cold War, I saw no reason to oppose a prudent American policy of selective interventionism to deter evil and advance good a little, but even in the Balkans, such a policy did not require large numbers of ground troops and was enabled by strong alliances. After 9/11, I was clearly blinded by fear of al Qaeda and deluded by the overwhelming military superiority of the US and the ease of democratic transitions in Eastern Europe into thinking we could simply fight our way to victory against Islamist terror. I wasn't alone. But I was surely wrong. Haven't the last few years been a sobering learning experience? Haven't we discovered that allies actually are important, that fear is no substitute for cold assessment of self-interest, that saying something will happen is not that same thing as it actually happening?<br>That someone could come out of the last few years believing that Teddy Roosevelt's American imperialism is a model for the future is a little hard for me to understand.
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! (2008), Ch. 11 (p. 212)
“They attacked you? (Danger)
No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Sins of the Night