"Find your major flaw. There lies your glory."

“It's a slam-dunk case!”

Source : Quoted in Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (2004). Tenet's response to President George W. Bush when the latter asked him, during a White House meeting, 21 Dec. 2002, about the evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

“The plural of anecdote is not data.”

“Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.”

Source : "Irrational, illogical, unpredictable - 24 years on, the world awaits Saddam's next move" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

“You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.”

“If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.”

“In nightlife you can do anything you want, because that is the fantasy life, the opposite of your daily life. Everything - except violence - is tolerated. And that is why it is so surrealistic in a way.”

“My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can't.”

“On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded.”