I consider myself a Republican.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.

Thinking Breeds Inventions and Innovations.

Whatever you acknowledgement gains the legitimacy to exist within your world.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form.

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference.