It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.

All of North Korea is a jail.

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

Stand on the gas, my friend. If your right foot doesn't ache, you're obviously doing something wrong.