I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>