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.

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.

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

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.

Stand in nature before anyone else has woken and most people find something to believe in.

I've been thinking.”That snapped Piper back to the present. Coming from your boyfriend, I've been thinking was kind of a scary line.

Greatness comes with patience.

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.