Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

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.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.