“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.” Quote by James M. Cain
“When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.” IfsKnowsWritingDoneProblemLyingNightNextEasySleepWorryNovelPolicyReaderAwakeForeign PolicyNext DayGood NightWork DoneAwake At Night Author:James M. Cain
“New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.” CitiesNew YorkVillageRotten Author:James M. Cain
“And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.” WayDutyInvestigationDocumentsTranslations Author:Sibel Edmonds
“You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.” CertainSupportBecomingDrugActivityComplexesTerroristRelatedBecoming OneMoney Laundering Author:Sibel Edmonds
“And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.” ShouldTwoActingSittingPressureCourtSilentCongressCorruptionBranchesSenateRepresentativesCourt System Author:Sibel Edmonds
“And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.” TryingHas BeensPastThreeResponsibilityMonthsAuthorityHearingSenateCommitteesThree MonthsJudiciaryCampaigningOversightAuthority And Responsibility Author:Sibel Edmonds
“After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?” GivingWarGovernmentActionEffortSupportResourcesOrganizationCharityTerrorAppearanceBillionsEngagedIslamicRegionsEstablishmentInvestigationAsianHarborsMockWar On TerrorMosquesBalkans Author:Sibel Edmonds
“The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped up and divided, but because I worked in the central place... other agents were sending their material to me... I was in this position to see all the dots being connected... These agents, while I was there, because I was the central person, they started connecting the dots.” PeoplePersonsImportantBigsTogetherPositionMaterialsImportant ThingsConnectedAgentsWorking TogetherDividedInvestigationConnectingDotsConnecting The Dots Author:Sibel Edmonds
“As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon” PeopleShowsLevelsHighestRanCiaNatoPentagon Author:Sibel Edmonds
“I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.” PeopleKnowsWayGovernmentLyingFallCasesInformationExampleUnionsIntimateSovietSeptemberProvenAsiaSoviet UnionLiedBin LadenSeptember 11TalibanIntimate RelationshipsCentral Asia Author:Sibel Edmonds