"I think there's a less than 5 percent chance that what I'd like to see happen actually happens. But it seems to me an…"

"[Saddam Hussein's execution] was a disaster, an unmitigated disaster. I was just so upset, even on the verge of tears…"

"Someone has to keep dreaming."

"People say to me, "Kanan, this is ridiculous, democracy in Iraq, a complete pipe dream," ... That's realism. You know…"

"I want to look into myself, look at myself, delve into the assumptions I had before the war."

"I ran into a whole number of people for whom bodies did not count. You know: the historical process, the victory for …"

"Nothing was inevitable. People made choices. Everything was in flux. It could have gone so many different ways. The r…"

"Evil is something that, when you see it, when you know it, it's intimate. It's almost sensual. That is why people who…"

"I have always thought there were dark ... corners in religion. I took that for granted. That's not the surprising thi…"

"Millions upon millions of words have been written about the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages in order …"