“The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.”

“Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.”

“Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.”

“We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.”

“Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.”

“Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the cou...”

“If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.”

“If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.”

“Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.”

“And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible h...”

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”

“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken trucks cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a bu...”

“Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.”

“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in tact they would even let the conquered people rule themselves in most cases, app...”