Congress has to take a role in terms of intelligence that is unlike anything they do in any other authority, and that is to work without reference and without reference to who's getting more of the [pork] barrel and to work in a very positive way. There's great jealousies between the intelligence committees and the defense armed services committees. That shouldn't exist.


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Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel...
HENRY BURTON
When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But ...
TIM BURTON
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BURTON
All literature is political.
LEVAR BURTON
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
ROBERT BURTON
'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
ROBERT BURTON
Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON
Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON
Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON
All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON