“We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.”

“The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.”

“If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired th...”

“Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist militant once his dreams of becoming an Olympic boxer faded....”

“Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.”

“The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.”

“I have to return some videotapes”

“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public off...”

“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, a...”

“When private bands of fanatics commit atrocities we call them "terrorists," which they are, and have no trouble dismissing their reasons. But when governments do the same, and on a much larger scal...”

“GTMO has been a goldmine of intelligence about radical Islamic terrorism.”

“Terrorism has no nationality or religion.”