If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.

If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque.

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs