There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.