Michael Hayden Quotes

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

Michael Hayden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1945

Topics

TruthPoliticsIntelligenceCriticism

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.

John Burroughs

LifeFlowerMindFruitMy LifeWay

I think when a lot of people hear the term 'country,' they step off from it.

Anderson East

StepPeopleThinkCountryOffHear

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

John J. McLaughlin

PeopleYouSituationWantWhyGut

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.

Matt Groening

FamilyFatherAdventureBrother

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck

WorkManUniverseStairsAheadUp

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Sitting Bull

ManFreeWhiteNowPoorFootsteps

I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.

Shirley Bassey

GreatTimeGiftKnowRealAlways

I forget I'm on a TV show sometimes.

Tom Hopper

ForgetSometimesShowTV ShowTV

It's not up to me. I will fight whoever the UFC puts in front of me. If it was up to me, I want to fight Dana White.

Mirko Cro Cop

FightMeWhiteWantWillUp

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

TravelYourselfChildGoWayBring

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

Douglas Trumbull

DesignFilmWorkingLogosComputer

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

Chris Martin

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