My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

It is better to believe in nothing but success, than to believe in other things without success.

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.