"Like going to Las Vegas and throwing down a million dollars to win a nickel." - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

"Like going to Las Vegas and throwing down a million dollars to win a nickel." - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: "In Madrid, [I chaired] a working group on intelligence at the time of the revelations of the abuses in Iraq. I was being pummeled by men who are not squeamish, not hand-wringing compassionate folks, [who said] it was worse than immoral -- it was stupid. The information really had very little value, and yet the loss that we took strategically to our reputation is tremendous. This is like going to Las Vegas and throwing down a million dollars to win a nickel."