Richard Phillips Quotes
I thought the first thing the pirates would do is take me out if they thought an attack was imminent. I really didn't see a good outcome.
Phillips, Richard, and Stephan Talty. A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea. Hyperion, 2010, p. 192.
Cunningham was part of an American Diplomatic Delegation negotiating with the Vietnamese. He had been an Naval Ace Fighter Pilot during the Vietnam War. He was notorious for his lack of tact.
In the closest call to murder in the Senate, Stuart Foote of Mississippi drew a pistol and aimed it at Benton in the heat of a debate:. Foote reconsidered and was overpowered on the Senate floor and was disarmed. There was no disciplinary action taken however. During slavery debates guns in the Congress were so common that Vice President Martin Van Buren once presided over the Senate for two weeks with a loaded pistol in each pocket.
He controlled a Shiite political party with its own armed militia.
The first Jew to run for the Vice Presidency on a major party ticket.
Richard Phillips (born 1962) is an American artist. He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and lives in New York City. In the 1990s he worked at the Guggenheim Museum as an art handler. He paints in a photo-realistic or hyper-realistic style.
