Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

Speak less but act more.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

Live your best and leave the rest

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

Every time I watch you open those beautiful eyes, I gaze with awe just thinking of how blessed I am to spend the rest of my life with you.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.