The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.

From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played.

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.

Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

You never came out the way you came in.

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.