The effort has been to squeeze the Taliban out of certain areas and the challenge now is to hold those areas and maintain dominance of those areas that is surely what the whole operation has been, has been all about,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

You've got to squeeze absolutely everything out of it, and so it was ideal from the standpoint of teaching and was, it seems to me, also wonderfully galvanizing intellectually because it really did make people think: "look how intricate what I thought was simple turns out to be."

你得完完全全把东西都挤干净了，正因如此，从教学本身的立场来看，这就是理想状态了，而在我看来，它能使人如醍醐灌顶,因为它真的在引导人们思考：,“我想象得很复杂的东西原来是这么简单的一回事儿啊！“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选