"I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet."

"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."

"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."

"One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him."

"Pizza makes me think that anything is possible."

"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life."

"With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion."

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."