Parochialism, poor information architectures, and bureaucratic confusion should not be included amongst the reasons to squirrel away intelligence that we need by cognizant analysts throughout the community.

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt to protect our market. In this case I believe that sound science dictates that it is time to open the border.

On the contrary, from the start we shared the confusion of other intelligence agencies about the dossier, until we declared it was not credible.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Confusion arises out of two things, either out of intelligence or ignorance.