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

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.

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.

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

Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.

Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely!

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

I feel much better to give than to receive. That's why I'm much more happier now as a coach than I ever was as a fighter.

The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.

Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.