“You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.”

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don'tto say are even more important than the things they do.”

“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?”

“When you work in intelligence, you do things in the country in which you work that are not legal. It's a life of illegality.”

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

“When dealing with the press the most important thing to remember is that you have the right to remain silent, because everything you say can and will be used against you.”

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. ”

“You have to stand up to bullies. You have to keep working to make things better, even when the odds are long and the opposition is fierce.”

“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”

“If you don't have the right things, you improvise. the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they're what you have.”