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

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.

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.

Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.