Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The world needs a strong America.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

Theres nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. Its bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

Wherever you may go Wherever you may have been Saying goodbye is fine If you say hello again

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.