[In a May 1996 interview with] Inside Politics, ... The policy worked, and now we're getting the Iranians and their influence out of Bosnia, and I think it's a good story.

Citizens want not just input but influence.

By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East.

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake he said. They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.

push them further into the arms of their Communist supporters.

If confirmed, my job will be to present the views of the intelligence community, and my own judgment, unvarnished and unprejudiced, ... We must have an intelligence process of absolute integrity.