The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.

I've had quite enough danger for a while I think. I might have some more when I'm thirteen, but definitely not before then...

Writing for me is never about quantity. It's always about quality.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

Remain true to the earth.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.