Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

You need to take control of your own destiny.

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time.

Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.