I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.

What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, then it is absolutely right to do what is right! Do what is right and be right in what you do!

The plan had three phases: dangerous, really dangerous and insanely dangerous.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.