"As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA`s best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it."

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Source : "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2015.

Michael Morell

#Jobs Quotes #President Quotes #Analysis Quotes

“I refuse to be pushed around anymore.”
“If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
“Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement.”
“If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.”

Source : Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.6, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.”
“LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.”
“I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.”
“Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.”

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