These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

Intelligence is not a science.

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.