“I think that feeling of reward comes from being able to find sometimes an unexpected reflection or insight that seems to transcend the description itself, where you actually realize you're concluding something that is a point of view, that may come across and actually touch people's conscience or minds in a way that could change, at least if not things, change points of view.” ThinkingMindSometimesFeelingsRealizingReflectionConscienceInsightPoint Of ViewUnexpectedThings Change Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.” PeopleThinkingWritingWarSometimesHumanityAbilityGood ThingsAliensHopefullyHatedGoing To War Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“It is important to know how influential people think and perceive their countrymen, let's say, especially when you are talking about people in power. I think it can be very revealing how they regard themselves and their relationship or their responsibility to their countrymen. That is vital for us all to know and in order to be able to judge them and evaluate them.” PeopleThinkingImportantResponsibilityJudgingPerceiveInfluentialInfluential People Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what their expectations are and what their concerns are. Also what's in their imaginations, what's in their minds, even what their rumors are and what their gossip is.” PeopleThinkingMindImportantImaginationExpectationsConcernGossipOrdinary PeopleRumor Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.” IfsThinkingDoneRight Thing Author:Jon Lee Anderson
“I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.” ThinkingReasonHouseBuiltFoundationBurningAllowingBaghdadPlunderSacking Author:Jon Lee Anderson
