One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

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

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

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.