Briefed Quotes

#1. You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

George W. Bush

#2. As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

Jane Harman

#3. It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

Tabitha Soren

#4. CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Argus Hamilton

#5. Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.

James Patterson

#6. I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

Edgar Mitchell

#7. So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

Robert Mueller

#8. The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

Curt Weldon

#9. Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

Mark Davis

#10. I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

George W. Bush

#11. I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!

Richard M. Nixon

#12. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

Patrick McGoohan

#13. I have not been briefed.

Gray Davis

#14. Jun Do held the book, felt its soft cover. "I could read some with you," she said. "Do you know of Christ?" Jun Do nodded. "I've been briefed on him.

Adam Johnson

#15. So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Alan Shepard

#16. To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.

Seneca.

#17. We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come ... this is not the end.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

John Madden

#19. I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

Susan Estrich

#20. In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.

Nostradamus

#21. The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without bit. Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green. They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one another; they were vastly excited, the horse being the only animal who has adopted our ceremonies as his own.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.

Carmelo Anthony

#23. I'm going to stand up for what [Donald Trump] says and does that is threatening to Americans, to the lives of Americans, the rights of Americans.

Hillary Clinton

#24. I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ! I'll wring the bastard fucker's bleeding blasted fucking windpipe!

James Joyce

#25. Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.

Rocky Graziano

#26. But after a year of tiptoeing through our lives, trying not to set off memories like landmines.

Victoria Schwab

#27. I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#28. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Eckhart Tolle

#29. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

Arthur Hailey