Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

From Mr. [Donald] Trump's perspective, right, he simply heard [Vladimir] Putin compliment him. He then responded by complimenting him. He never thought that he might be being played.

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

There is always room for coincidence.

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence