I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur…

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.