After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.