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.

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.

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.

There is always time for another last minute

Don't you be thinking, ' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.

The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.

Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

Confidence is a horrible thing