Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

Life is too short to enjoy all the beauties of life.

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

Oh, God, the lovebirds,” Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. “I hate happy couples.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.