The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.