Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so presumably knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both in a sense absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty whether of knowledge or ignorance.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

When I resigned I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.