In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

Knowing your purpose helps you in using all available resources in achieving your goals

A lot of people are on the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I'm looking for fifteen minutes of Freedom

Nations like individuals live and die but civilization cannot die.

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

The working class must control the factories and the country

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me

Without my family, I'd be something.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.