I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.

The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.