Quotes by Jeffrey Robinson

“Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”

“The only time (the West) ... has been successful in tracking down despot money is when its been too late, ... The Laundry Men.”

“(Late Philippine dictator Ferdinand) Marcos is a good example, Mr. (Manuel) Noreiga of Panama. But this is all way after the fact. They dont get into the game soon enough to really make a difference.”

“You really need a shredder if you have information you want to get rid off, but you do not want to throw away in a hotel waste paper basket,”

“[I suggest you] go downstairs to the front desk, go the managers office and say that you just want to put it through their shredder.”

“Russia has become an enormous black hole for our money,”

“There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.”

“You are talking about people who couldnt leave the area, couldnt get on bus or train, maybe didnt have vehicle transportation and was hoping that the storm wouldnt be so bad.”

“There will always be people who are going to be opportunistic when they see the situation unfolding as it has in New Orleans. And its unfortunate that they are getting as much press as those who need to be rescued.”

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.