You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.

The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups.

I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure that can make people and products. You need to cultivate an environment that they can imagine living in and being in, having employees be in. And a fair tax structure. And a responsive government.

No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet.