No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.