I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

When you learn to love yourself, you teach those around to love themselves. And that will be what changes our world.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

I was acting my way through the whole thing.

Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside.

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.