I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.