I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Don't try and perfect yourself for one person. Wait for the one who loves your imperfections and make you feel perfect.

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.