“The officer was able to strategically gun this guy down before he was able to kill his hostage, ... It appeared he was about to kill his hostage before this officer put an end to it.”
Brent Mull
“Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.”
Denis Leary
“This guy had taken her hostage. He had a gun and 50 rounds of ammunition and the keys to the courthouse and he could have decided he was going to go out in a blaze of glory.”
Cliff Herberg
“We are in touch not only with the hostage takers but with the hostages themselves.”
Remi Oyo
“Eight gunmen were killed and five hostages were freed,”
Vladimir Kolesnikov
“In Lowell, Indiana, there was a four-hour hostage standoff in a bank. The bank customers were made to line up and stand still for hours . . . just like in a regular visit.”
Bill Maher
“Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.”
Terry Waite
