I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

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.

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito", I'd tell people.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.