The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why n….

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that the vegetables th….

The future belongs to the free..

Donald Trump is the head of a global power..

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive chil….

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the i….

Another agency - the IRS - did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did ge….

I'm really not that confident!.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!.

Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm….

I don't like things that aren't true..

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. Bu….

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read..

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better..

There's always a balance, I think, any administration has to find in not just the military but in any agency of government..

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works..

We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what nee….

Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems.….

Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horre….

I never put myself out there as an employment agency..