One person I met described him as "impenetrable".
I met described recent graduates as lacking the skills and discipline required in today's workplace.
And yet none of the Kurdish fighters I met described the Raqqa campaign as a political quid pro quo.
One Benghazi businessman I met described, weeping, how he was jailed for months, and tortured, while Qaddafi's auditors checked his books for signs of theft.
Sotloff's editors, and fellow journalists he had met, described him as an experienced freelancer who took every precaution in the dangerous places he visited.
One actress I met described the lover's-wife roles as her worst assignments: in addition to making her feel guilty and terrible, they tended to run overtime, and the husbands shouted and behaved aggressively.
Few people active in the democratic opposition were willing or able to talk to me, and those I met described a state of siege in which they didn't dare leave their homes.
The young man we met described al-Shabab as a "business".
As a fellow mom I recently met described, it's the equivalent of watching a cage match.
Student journalists at the school, who said they were among the only students that DeVos met, described feeling "disappointed" by DeVos' visit and called it "intrusive" and "not helpful".
