My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

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.

Well, that's an evil smile...

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.