I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.

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.

Понякога трябва да се предадеш, за да победиш.

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important

And you will keep breaking my heart a thousand times. And I will keep joining the pieces back a thousand times.

He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.