What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to leave the next day. So then we developed a framework which should have been acceptable as a concept to the Chinese, namely to express regret for the loss of life and maintain our position that we had a right to fly these missions.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.