Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

The child I wasis just one breath away from me.

Love is nothing more than an example of a emotion which is build on pressure.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.