"While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people."

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Source : Remarks by the President in Nomination of Secretary of Defense and CIA Director, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 7, 2013.

John O. Brennan

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.”
“Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.”

Source : Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”
“Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.”
“I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news,”
“There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.”
“In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.”
“So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage
“I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.”

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