One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after the war began in Afghanist….

You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look….

In terms of Iraq, al Qaeda valued Iraq because we destroyed a government it wanted destroyed and because we put soldiers on the ground and forces tha….

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it America….

You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money….

Major danger lie for America? That we could very well be defeated oversees and at home. And the source of it is clearly that we have yet to find a po….

He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in ….

The Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why they were fighting us, and we hav….

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not..

Israelis are wrong in not looking for a change in the relationship with the United States that would put it more in perspective - that we are the gre….

I think clearly Europe has a lot to worry about. When I was working at the CIA - and I always worked with a lot of European services - they always we….

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'.

But the Iranians are surrounded by a sea of Sunnis who hate them. And if you look on the map, you can see that they're also surrounded by a bunch of ….

It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main enemy. We're simply in the w….

What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constrictio….

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's p….

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the d….

Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement levels have started to….

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone….

The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other. For the first time those men had an….

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too ….