I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!

We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.

There's nobody that wants the president to be successful more than I.

I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go.

The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.

And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one?

Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.

I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I mean, by this point I know about as much as most 'real' doctors.