War & Peace
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- This isn’t ISIS; no one’s dying. We’ll get through this.
- Those people were real. They were mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, doctors and teachers, poets, wonderful people. Composers. And now they scream in silence. My story is only one story, but it is the story six million others cannot tell. I was, and always shall be, the witness to ... mass murder.
- We are dealing in lethal firearms. I’m not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Klu Klux Klan member in here, either.
- We will never forget your sons and daughters who have died on our soil. They are now our sons and daughters.
- Today, Paris is the capital of the world.
- My brother was Muslim, and he was killed by people who pretend to be Muslims. They are terrorists, that's it.
- It is still not safe to go and pick [bodies] up for burial.
- Americans can directly relate to attacks on freedom of speech. They can directly relate to terrorism. And the impact in France is being compared to the impact of 9/11 in the United States. Boko Haram, by contrast, is viewed as a kind of civil war ... and it's all happening a very long way away.
- Hashtags from horrific events may not fix what's happening, but [hashtags] #illridewithyou & #IndiawithPakistan provide glimmers of hope in dark times.
- The Interview may be the most elaborately marketed movie of all time.
- The Obama administration is now in the market for their fourth secretary of defense. When the president goes through three secretaries, he should ask, ‘Is it them, or is it me?’
- The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded.