If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

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.

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.

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.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

He rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss.

The most beautiful sight in football is too watch Manchester United chase a game.