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

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.

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.

A lack of empathy is the biggest crime of all.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.