I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.