If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war.

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

I am the living Barbie Doll, how are you?

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.

There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.