Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.

Nothing wrong with making money.

No strings attached, your love is so WiFi.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.