I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

Be strong within ones self, but never forget where ones true strength comes from.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder - to make sure that it sounds right.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.