My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

The child tells me her grandmothershowed her how to cure sadness by sucking the juice of an orange, while standing on a beach.Toss the peels onto a wave.Watch the sadness float away.

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the United States is important. I mean it depends on how you define loyalty.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.