Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

I still believe I'm the best player. That's what keeps me going.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

You need to be distracted.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.