If I understand this correctly, two of my agents almost shot a man in a crowded diner for bringing his wife flowers.

All you need to know is that a cop's life was on the line and I was trying to save him.

Yeah, I heard about this guy, like, two years ago... so panicked, he had a heart attack in his chair... and he almost died.

Like you, I thought I needed to make sure that everyone responsible for that murder paid with their life, and that almost did it.

And we talk about how women have such strong perceptions, because of our tenuous position and our role as tradition-keepers, that we can have the great potential to be change-agents.

Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country, they can compromise our security, they can undermine democracy, they can cause the deaths of those that defend us.

And at that time, we knew that we were facing a knife-edge future where the technology we needed, the technology we loved, could also be our undoing.

(Laughter) But fortunately, it's often the case that our logic is sound, but it's our ability to communicate the logic that is in jeopardy.

And what's interesting is that you can see that hierarchy is having a bit of a wobble, and it's all about heterarchical now, so people trust people like themselves more than they trust corporations and governments.

Part of it might be, and there are terrorists, but are we really thinking about terrorists as such an existential threat that we are willing to do anything at all to fight them?

Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive.

With the Women's Sports Foundation being the advocates for Title IX still, because we're trying to keep protecting the law, because it's in a tenuous position always, so we really are concerned, and we do a lot of research.

So if we think of life not as some magical spark, but a state of incredibly complex, self-perpetuating organization, death is just the process of increasing entropy that destroys this fragile balance.

Margaret was beautiful, ambitious, and ruthless in persecuting any threat to her power, and she distrusted Richard of York, most of all.

This precarious situation has a surprisingly positive implication, which is that improvements in the reliability of any one link in the chain increases the value of improving any of the other links.

(Cheering) I see all of that and a man who spent a quarter of his life in state prison -- six years, to be exact, starting as a teenager on Rikers Island for an act that nearly cost a man his life.

Every society is vulnerable to accepting propaganda as truth, and no society where propaganda replaces the truth can be truly free.

The garrison guarding the tower abandon their posts to calm the agitated people, and Ethic, Hedge, and Octavia slip through— and nearly slip into the depths of the gorge standing between them and the tower.