James R. Clapper Quotes
If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries.
Quotes to Explore
-
If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
-
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
-
Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
-
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
-
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
-
Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
-
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
-
I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
-
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
-
The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
-
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
-
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
-
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
-
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
-
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
-
You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
-
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
-
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
-
I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
-
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
-
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
-
I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal's always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.
-
As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
-
If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries.
