I am blunt when I want to be.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

I kill a sofa for you and you go and sit in a chair?” Skulduggery asked. “I don’t think you appreciate the sacrifice that has been made for you.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

We can only know others by ourselves.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.