Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

Intelligence is not a science.

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.