The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.