Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

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.

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

My point is that she's [Laura Bush] busy and I'm busy, which makes our marriage not only interesting but exciting.

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.