I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.

With life, everything that’s needed to be known can be known by human. No mystery can be hidden from you if you really try to look into it.

Neither compares nor competes.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Corn is the only food you hold like corn.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.