36 Quotes by Peter Scott

You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

He was sold out for the October trip by June.

Our fish hits the table within two minutes of being cooked, the chips within one minute.

Look, from a professional soldier's point of view, we were very eager to get there and to do the job that we were trained for.

I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong.

It has a very strong corporate sector, a very sensible government and Brazil is a place that is going to do extremely well over the medium term after this rough patch is out of the way.

We are responding to feedback about our schemes from people who said they would like to have a text message service to alert them to any changes to the traffic management and lane closures so that they could plan their journeys better.