Democracy fascinates me.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

You'll never see us coming.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.