10 Quotes by Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Some of the things on there were pretty frightening. It's that secret life of teens that we don't know about.

We will be close enough that the Serbs will know NATO will be there.

It's very reasonable to say the aircraft will be tracked by Yugoslav early warning systems.

In fact, ... You will only attack bridges between ten o'clock at night and four o'clock in the morning. That creates a sanctuary and makes the kids (allied pilots) very, very predictable as to how we're going to do our business.

I'd have gone for the head of the snake the on first night, ... I'd have turned the lights out the first night. I'd have dropped the bridges across the Danube. I'd have hit five or six political/military headquarters in downtown Belgrade. (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic and his cronies would have waked up the first morning asking what the hell was going on.

Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection with people, places, ideas and issues. Of these, the most important are people and relationships. And the most reliable route to relationships is conversation.

When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.