I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

You must ask your creator for the purpose of your living because only he knows your destiny

I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house.

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

One can make a joke, but one can't be one.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.