Scott Anderson Quotations

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.

Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield.

We're going to see a good bounce back in the first quarter. Solid consumer and business spending will be driving that growth.

We're going to make an investment in Second Avenue. It would be nice if we could keep some of that. It's not going to be an eyesore. It's not going to be a stucco box. It will be wood and brick and stone. It will be a consistent addition to Second Avenue.

The prices paid component plays into fears that the Fed may be behind the curve.

Many of the upper level men players come from successful baseball careers and believe they are still playing in the major leagues.

She's a very good musician. She's got a great attitude and she's a hard worker. She's a very positive and happy young lady,

Obviously, energy supply is still having trouble keeping up with the current pace of demand.

China is emerging as a key growth engine for the world economy, contributing over a quarter of total global growth in recent years, more than any other country. The downside for U.S. consumers and businesses is that this is forcing global commodity prices higher.

We may be younger overall, but have the skills and knowledge to compete with other conference teams.

I also act as Umpire in Chief for local state tournaments, hiring and overseeing the umpires, and settling any contested plays.

I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

I think that this will have the same impact.

It is an unfortunate way to end the season but the performances of the young lads shows there is a lot to be built on for next season.

It is also partly a reflection of the low global inflationary environment and poor returns elsewhere that allow bond investors to settle for what historically has been considered paltry returns.

Our little coffee shop is humming on Sunday mornings. It's a huge hit.

The aim of speaker verification technology is to enhance the privacy and security of the telephone self-service channel.

That's a tough question. Right now, no. It is not of interest. I haven't talked to anybody about it.

I was obviously disappointed with the result but really pleased with the effort the lads put in.

We couldn't make so much noise of what we were going to do.

Wages have been having trouble keeping pace with inflation. You might be growing more jobs, and there may be more vacancies, but employers have been extremely reluctant to increase wages to lure people back into the job market.

We have no way of knowing if someone is a nominee officer or a regular officer.

We don't have the capacity to verify that.

We've been relying on the housing activity for our economic growth.

We saw a dramatic change in that animal.

The quick settlement of the Boeing strike cements the prospect that the economic good times will continue in the coming year.

The questions will be, who can have at that resource?

We have several banking relationships with Okanogan businesses and residents of Okanogan. This makes it more convenient for them and those that are not members. This is an opportunity for us.

Expectations have definitely dropped. A lot of people are clinging to jobs they might not enjoy doing just for the sake of job security.

You can't be running record deficits forever without some impact on yields.

The organization would love to establish a league in Alexandria.

We chose this location for a number of reasons, including the size and skill level of the local workforce, the location and condition of the plant, and the right level of local and state assistance necessary to launch such a venture.

Core inflation has accelerated over the past three months, suggesting that the Fed has not yet completely corked the inflation genie. The present inflationary environment will continue to push the Fed further down the path of interest rate hikes.

Customer demand and product improvements within our industries are driving the establishment of our new Fort Wayne operation.

The State Umpire in Chief rewards umpires who want to work top games by assigning them to national tournaments, and I have been fortunate to work three nationals.

I wanted to display something people might see at the Riparian Preserve, or at least in Arizona.

Some will be absorbed in other sectors. Some will get hurt.

As long as the (sewer) system was leaking that amount, it violated the Montana Water Quality Act. Clearly the leakage was an illegal discharge.

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

I tried to talk her out of it a couple of times. I'd talked to contractors, and nobody knew anything about it.

For consumers, the home-equity fountain of youth is about to dry up.

That's so you can check out the church without feeling you have to join.

The bad news is Silicon Valley is no longer alone. Silicon Valley is in a race with other cities and countries around the world.

It's clear that the economic impacts from the hurricanes will stretch well beyond the Gulf Coast region to all corners of the nation and beyond. Of great concern for the economy is the mood of the U.S. consumer.

It's been very enjoyable and I look forward to continuing with this for a long time.

It let him show he's tough on the Americans.

I've had phone calls from California. Back in Illinois, somebody had called, seen a bird alert, and were planning a trip here just because of that.

This is just like a homeowner who wants to have the stability of knowing what the monthly mortgage payments will be. It's a smart move by the government for financial reasons.

The Federal Reserve will continue to raise rates during the next several meetings, as the pass-though from higher oil prices to overall inflation may not yet be over. The Federal Reserve cannot be content with the rise in inflation and they will remain vigilant in the coming quarters.

I'm excited from the standpoint that these kids are consistently improving. It's exciting to see how these kids are running.

In Central California these days, it seems as if everyone is either a real estate agent, mortgage broker, home builder or construction worker.

I'm happy. I think it was a smart decision.

I'll know more about that in the morning. It's possible that much of the county caught 3 inches at least.

If the Legislature passes USTAR and funds it as being requested, this will set off an explosion that will have a dramatic impact and a dramatic return to our state and to our economy.

I just enjoy it. It's a lot of fun, and it keeps me out of the house.

Come March, they may need to blow right past a neutral rate and begin preparing some preventive policy tightening designed to slow GDP growth back to trend and head off additional inflationary pressures.

If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.

Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.

You can't underestimate the value of energy and buzz. Those things bring people through the door.

You can try to ignore it for some time, ... But eventually you have to adjust your behavior.

All I could hear was popping, cracking, just settling and whatever. I've lived here 20 years and all of a sudden, this happens.

Alex is going to put pressure on you with his legs. If he gets into your secondary, he becomes like a running back.

The Industrial Association has identified (hiring skilled entry-level workers) as our No. 1 challenge. We've been working four or five years to put this together.

The economy may have taken a stutter step, but it's one step back and two steps forward. We need to look past the weak GDP number.