Jackie Spinner Quotations

I don't know whether to cry or skip down my street.

Frankly, you pray. My heart goes out to her family, her sister, her parents. I can only imagine what this must be doing to them.

If the borough of Manhattan was peaceful, but there was a car bomb in Brooklyn every day, it's tough to talk about the tranquility.

We're probably getting about 80 to 90 percent of the story because we're able to use Iraqis to help us.

I think we're getting 90% of the story.

I think she had to bank on the fact that she could connect in some way with her captors. Unlike most Western journalists, she spoke good Arabic. And if you look at her work, she comes across as compassionate, as balanced.

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

We're dealing to some extent with an unreasonable insurgency. Journalists should have immunity. We shouldn't be part of the political situation there and yet we are.

There is a lot of opportunistic crime in Iraq, but eventually, it all comes down to politics. The video and their demands for female Iraqi detainees showed they think they have something.

It means that they might not have carried through with their threat, that perhaps all of these pleas and these calls for her release, particularly from the Sunni politicians, might be getting through.

This has been our No. 1 threat and our worst nightmare for almost two years.