"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

-- Mark Twain

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“When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.”

Source : Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.
“We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.”
“The core philosophy we share with leaders is that everyone can develop the qualities in themselves. We all have strengths, but where we have gaps, we can make small changes in our behavior that make a big difference in how others see us as leaders.”
“I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.”

Source : "James Clapper Hails Checks And Balances While Treating Oversight “Too Cute By Half”, www.emptywheel.net. June 10, 2013.
“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”

Source : "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.
“One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.”
“Love is boundary-less.”

Source : "Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.
“It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the same temperature.”

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