As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine.

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

I don't have to be anything at all. I don't even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself.