The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out the difference between a legal authorized necessary and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

In my book I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal necessary and saved lives.

History has shown us that on extraordinarily rare occasions it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Concerning culture as a process one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.