I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

It's funny, 99% of the time, haters and the 1 they hate on have everything in common and could be best friends.

Love is the reward of love.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.

I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway."

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.