We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.

When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.