George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

Call a man 'ignorant, ' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that circumstances have to change.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.