Best 8 quotes of Ronan Farrow on MyQuotes

A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

What happened to the missing prisoners? How did these men and boys end up in such a tomb, in such a place? And, a question no one inside the US government wanted to touch for more than a decade after: What did the Americans on the ground know and see as the earth was moved and the grave was filled with body after body? We made a deal with Dostum for the territory he could take for us, for the blood he could spill of enemies we shared. What was the price? What did we give up when we shook his hand? How did all the talk of smaller footprints and partner forces hold up against a femur sticking out of the dirt? These were familiar ethical quandaries in America's national-security-sensitive alliances. But, like the smell in the desert, they had become unusually hard to ignore here.