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

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.

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.

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

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other.

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.