I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

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 everyone in New York took sides over these petty, insignificant arguments, no one would have any friends at all.

In Business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Are you brave enough to live your DASH: birth year – death year?

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.