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I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

There's always a little jump to your heart when you realize you've got looting.

There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that. But we're seeing a lot of frustration, and nobody knows the answer. All of us are saying we need an answer, and what I'm saying is we need, all of us, a heart change so, as America, we can move forward.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

You think looting is bad in Egypt, look at Peru, India, China. I've been told in China there are over a quarter-million archaeological sites, and most have been looted. This is a global problem of massive proportions, and we don't know the scale.

We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.