Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Know that you are always safe. And also know that it's possible to move from the old to the new, easily and peacefully.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.