In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

Don’t give up. You have invested a lot of time already.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

For every terrorist we kill, there’s another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They’re like shark’s teeth: break one and another will rise in it’s place.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce