If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

We have too many mosques in America.

The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Nothing Can Beat Hard Work, But Hard Work Itself

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.

I am worried about development in the field of information technology, communication, etc. So you cannot say that I have become inactive.

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.

The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.