It's a slam-dunk case!

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

Never break faith with the truth.

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.