As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I would see.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it's more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.