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.

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.

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.

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.

How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?"..."It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank yo

You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick.

To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!