In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

People love conspiracy theories.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.