Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

There's no such thing as the United Nations.

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Every act of kindness and consideration changes and enhances the course of life.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

To err is human, to forgive supine.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.