I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice.

Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.