It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

We want too much but enjoy too little.

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.