“The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your...” — Michael Hayden Quote

The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.