David Kay quote: "Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers."

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.
DAVID KAY

There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably ...
DAVID KAY

My suspicions are that we'll find [things] in the chemical and biological areas. In fact, I think th...
DAVID KAY

In fact, Secretary Powell was not told that one of the sources he was given as a source of this info...
DAVID KAY

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after th...
DAVID KAY

[Kay said the United States was not alone in its prewar interpretation of Iraq's weapons capability....
DAVID KAY

There is a lot of proof [supporting the U.S. case against Iraq] -- the proof of failure to allow ins...
DAVID KAY

Take your time. Put this together in a coherent fashion, so we have a true picture of this problem.
DAVID KAY

real danger [was] not so much that Saddam would pass along the secrets of weapons of mass destructio...
DAVID KAY

It was a realization that I hadn't gotten all the parts [of Iraq's nuclear program]. So there was a ...
DAVID KAY

I suspect there will be multiple reasons, and none of them the easy reason - someone simply distorte...
DAVID KAY

We bought 10 years of freedom from the threat of nuclear holocaust in North Korea.
DAVID KAY

There are many units operating right now in Baghdad and it was a case -- genuine case -- of lack of ...
DAVID KAY

The charges are out there, and if there was misuse or distortion [of the Iraq intelligence], we need...
DAVID KAY

the intelligence community owes the president (an explanation) rather than the president owing the A...
DAVID KAY

We do, after all, have the case of A.Q. Khan, who, for 20 years, sold secrets of nuclear weapons pro...
DAVID KAY

The damning thing is the seals, ... The Iraqis didn't use seals on anything. So I'm absolutely sure ...
DAVID KAY

[Using the] wow ... Kay said that his 'model' for the inquiry would be the special commission named ...
DAVID KAY

There's no way that that would have been discovered by normal international inspections. I couldn't ...
DAVID KAY

It turns out we were all wrong, and that is most disturbing.
DAVID KAY

There is no alternative to the replacement of Saddam.
DAVID KAY

I don't want to estimate. I want to have proof.
DAVID KAY

There was an absolutely closed mind. They would not look at alternative explanations.
DAVID KAY

There was an absolutely closed mind,
DAVID KAY

The weapons do not exist.
DAVID KAY

The Iraqis had over two decades to develop these weapons. And hiding them was an essential part of t...
DAVID KAY

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we ...
DAVID KAY

Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to ...
DAVID KAY

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.
DAVID KAY

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in ...
DAVID KAY

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis ...
DAVID KAY

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the Fre...
DAVID KAY

I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not politica...
DAVID KAY

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the ...
DAVID KAY

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and esti...
DAVID KAY

I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one ...
DAVID KAY

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us her...
DAVID KAY

But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost c...
DAVID KAY

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to co...
DAVID KAY

And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The ex...
DAVID KAY

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of glo...
DAVID KAY

A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it i...
DAVID KAY

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth...
DAVID KAY

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated....
DAVID KAY

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the...
DAVID KAY

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field lead...
DAVID KAY

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclu...
DAVID KAY

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that&...
JAY KAY

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to...
KAY PANABAKER

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I ...
SARAH KAY

My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k...
KAY ROBERTSON

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY

The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desi...
KAY HAGAN

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be s...
ALAN KAY

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tel...
KAY LYONS

I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who ...
KAY CANNON

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY

You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close ...
KAY KNUDSEN

If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because ...
SARAH KAY

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
SARAH KAY

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so sp...
KAY LYONS

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to tak...
SUSAN KAY

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAY

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
ALAN KAY

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.
KAY GRANGER

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've ...
JAY KAY

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. ...
JAY KAY

I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with su...
KAY PANABAKER

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human r...
KAY GRANGER

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wai...
KAY GRANGER

I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are g...
KAY CANNON

North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, ...
KAY HAGAN

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca...
KAY GRANGER

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.
KAY PANABAKER

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of thes...
SARAH KAY

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some gre...
JAY KAY

Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possib...
SARAH KAY

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his ...
ALAN KAY

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you...
JAY KAY

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very d...
ALAN KAY

I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let ...
SARAH KAY

None of us can choose where we shall love...
SUSAN KAY

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that he...
JAY KAY

I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the ...
KAY ROBERTSON

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have-so spe...
KAY LYONS

Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybird...
JAY KAY

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
KAY RYAN

With components in abundance, it's not as if there are any kind of spikes on the cost side. In that ...
ROGER KAY

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAY

I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of W...
JAY KAY

I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one...
KAY CANNON

I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be t...
KAY CANNON

I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.'...
KAY ROBERTSON

All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunt...
ALAN KAY

Free speech works because most of us know when to keep our mouths shut.
KAY ANDERSON

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had...
ALAN KAY

I am quite fussy about clothes.
JAY KAY

He said now you're gonna have colored baby chicks aren't you?. He made it a point to come get 'em. M...
KAY JOHNSTON

They'll be placed in an incubator until they get feathers and begin to fly. Then they'll be placed w...
KAY CRITES

We think Linux is great for what it's good for, and Solaris is great for what it's good for, and we ...
BARBARA KAY

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social ...
ALAN KAY

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encycloped...
SARAH KAY

The bullet never penetrated his skull,
JAY KAY

A lot of it's been done at my studio at the house, but I also wanted to get out of the studio becaus...
JAY KAY

being able to do things on the spot, being able to play your instrument, being able to be imaginativ...
JAY KAY

This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, ... I am extremely pleased to be...
JAY KAY

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so s...
KAY LYONS

We have a hundred response vehicles either in the Baton Rouge area or en route.
KAY WILKINS

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds...
KAY KNUDSEN

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love
KAY KNUDSEN

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of b...
SARAH KAY

Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I pr...
KAY CANNON

(Cocaine is) as common as dirt,
ROBIN KAY

But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every singl...
SARAH KAY

Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shorelin...
SARAH KAY

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should eve...
KAY HAGAN

My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her
SARAH KAY

They're fearful that 'what if I can't survive financially? They haven't figured what they have in sa...
ANDREA KAY

Science and math club help take pictures. We have a lot of collaboration between the community colle...
KAY DAVIS

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look...
KAY ROBERTSON

[Lawmakers blistered former FEMA chief Michael Brown for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina ...
KAY GRANGER

This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions. I am extremely pleased to be wor...
JAY KAY

It's going to be very small ? about 10 or 12 pieces line.
JAY KAY

sit at home, feet on the dog.
JAY KAY

He does not want to give a statement against a family member, ... He has not given a formal statemen...
JAY KAY

The insides have basically been gutted. The tile and flooring is all being redone, along with the ce...
HOWARD KAY

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in E...
KAY HUTCHISON

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
KAY HUTCHISON

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it ...
KAY HUTCHISON

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to ...
KAY HUTCHISON

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security syst...
KAY HUTCHISON

'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
KAY CANNON

The nice thing about Sun workstations is that the quality we build in extends the longevity of their...
BARBARA KAY

We've treated them as an important ISV.
BARBARA KAY

We welcome people considering Unix as an alternative for NT. We would like them to be sure to be run...
BARBARA KAY

[Linux on SPARC architectures works in two ways in the educational market. The first case involves o...
BARBARA KAY

We felt aggrieved at a few decisions, but we can't use that as an excuse. We have to learn how the r...
BEN KAY

If you asked most of the Leicester boys, they wouldn't be 100% happy with the system in terms of pla...
BEN KAY

I am sure all the senior players will feel a bit of added responsibility,
BEN KAY

I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.
BEN KAY

The Type

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY

Private Parts

The first love of my life never saw me naked - there was always a parent co...
SARAH KAY

You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. No...
SARAH KAY

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,...
SARAH KAY

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space ...
SARAH KAY

Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss ...
SARAH KAY

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you wer...
JAY KAY

The best way to find a new job is to hold meaningful conversations with people. Talk about your care...
ANDREA KAY

Don't rush to develop a new resume. That's the mistake almost everyone makes. Instead, reflect on wh...
ANDREA KAY

Most people that I have met who've been in this situation, almost all of them have told me, after th...
ANDREA KAY

She now has the luxury to explore her next step, because she got this package.
ANDREA KAY

You should always be thinking, What if I lose my job today? Do an inventory of your skills and dream...
ANDREA KAY

It seems people are dressing down in all areas of life, and the rules in the workplace are accommoda...
ANDREA KAY

It has been casual, and it's going to be.
ANDREA KAY

At first, when you hear of someone coming from Kentucky, and any time somebody rushes up to you and ...
ANN KAY

They're vivacious and they're ambitious, and they're combing the town. They're getting a real bird's...
ANN KAY

It has always been a standing joke in the family that I've never been invited to the queen's birthda...
BETTY KAY

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at...
KAY GRANGER

The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Noth...
KAY RYAN

Is this the first step in bringing in AMD systems to the Dell market?
ROGER KAY

It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation ...
ALAN KAY

It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, includi...
ALAN KAY

You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing '...
KAY CANNON

There's something in her that responded to Manson. She was not a hippie, ... When she joined, Manson...
STEPHEN KAY

You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!
KAY KNUDSEN

Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize...
KAY KNUDSEN

What Apple's producing with iPod is the total experience with hardware, software and services. That'...
ROGER KAY

When you notice yourself not feeling challenges, not feeling energized, and watching the clock, star...
ANDREA KAY

It was a slug-out. Just punch for punch. We were fortunate to get the last punch in.
KAY YOW

with the aim of carrying out serious crimes together with other Islamic fundamentalist groups abroad...
KAY NEHM

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each...
KAY KNUDSEN

That's not necessarily a bad thing. If you look at the auto industry, Detroit is in virtually the sa...
ROGER KAY

My faith guides my life.
KAY HAGAN

You need to do the little things in marriage to keep your marriage close and we always leave notes a...
KAY VAUGHAN

With all the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and in-laws, she still knows everyone's...
KAY SANDERS

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forge...
MARY KAY

If someone needs new gloves, I have to make sure the gloves are ordered. If the trucks need gas, I'm...
KAY HUGHES

I don't know if it's actually going to work.
KAY HUGHES

The sad truth is that consumers will buy what's on the shelf. Businesses will wait.
ROGER KAY

That thing was thrown around in the broom closet a number of times.
KAY MCCLURE

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know...
KAY HUTCHISON

If we're not disturbed by the world in which we live, we will be consumed with the trivial, the insi...
KAY WARREN

Intense creative episodes are, in many instances, indistinguishable from hypomania
KAY JAMISON

Sadly the U.S. industry has not bitten the bullet and accepted the need for a compulsory system rath...
STEVE KAY

What then after the medications, psychiatrist, despair, depression, and overdose? All those incredib...
KAY JAMISON

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for m...
KAY BOYLE

Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she gr...
KAY HONEYMAN

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I l...
JAY KAY

Not sure how much longer she can continue her fight for the children or how much more of her there i...
KAY BRATT

I just think David is one of the premier players at that position in the whole league. I watch him l...
DOUG KAY

Obviously, you can't put one of these processors in an existing Dell machine. AMD and Intel motherbo...
ROGER KAY

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness...
KAY JAMISON

She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if ...
JACKIE KAY

I likened my arrival to Paris as a pilgrimage.
KAY BOYLE

Several people mentioned we need more free things. We know many senior citizens who can afford to go...
KAY WILLIAMS

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.
KAY THOMPSON

In the hills giant oaks
Fall upon their knees
You can touch parts
You have no right ...
KAY RYAN

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

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