If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes

Never make a decision while in the state of anger.

The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.

Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.

You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.