We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

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.

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

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.

You can develop your talents to the highest level.

Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

Of course awards matter.

Whatever your dream is, look yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it -no matter what the price.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'