Edward Walker Quotations

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

My advice is to invest in a wonderfully made carpet rather than a cheap one,

I don't think we're going to have any efforts for a while. I don't see how you can marry up the Palestinians with the Israelis when both are undergoing leadership crises.

Go ahead and buy the more expensive one, and down the road you can have it reupholstered. I'm getting ready to reupholster my sofa, which I've had for more than 12 years.

What we do on the show and real life are different, ... On the show we try to give the impression of what the room should be or could be.

Part of the strategy is keeping the rhetoric up to remind the Syrians that they are not out of the box yet and that Lebanese democracy has the full support of the Western powers.

Part of the responsibility has to be on the opposition powers. If they can't organize and they can't put up attractive candidates and develop a message that galvanizes the people, they aren't going to succeed.

The real story is how the Palestinians will handle this,

There has been a lot of movement of people of one sect or another into certain branches of the military or the police. We've tried, but it's hard to integrate them. But I don't see that there's any mood to integrate at this point.

We had a great amount of cooperation with the Jordanians on the intelligence side, and with the Turks as well, so we were getting value out of the relationship,

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room, ... A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

a training ground for democracy in which the candidates ... actually had to campaign, to get out the vote. These are all skills that Egypt doesn't have in large measures, and they are going to be critical if a real opposition will develop.

Ruling parties don't give up power voluntarily. They have to be defeated at the polls, and they have to be defeated by a better organized, more charismatic leader, a better campaign and even better shady tactics -- whatever it takes.

This is something that's been leaning in this direction for some time, and the mosque incident has accelerated the process. What we're talking about is people looking out for their own. I don't think it can be turned around.

It's expected that you reward your own. It goes down to the tribal base of these societies. You don't have a sense of nationalism.

Don't buy a $300 sofa and think it will last for years, ... Go ahead and buy the more expensive one, and down the road you can have it reupholstered. I'm getting ready to reupholster my sofa, which I've had for more than 12 years.

general tension in the region and the feeling that there was a requirement or a need for a new review of the security situation in general in Yemen.