I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

If you cannot fix the situation may be the situation is meant to fix youu

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.