“The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people...” — Barton Gellman Quote

“The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.”

“Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.”

“Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.”

“After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?'”

“The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.”

“German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.”