As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

Take risks in order to innovate

This weather may be breaking our hearts but it will not be breaking our will.

Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

American public policy is run on a myth.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.