It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.