People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

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.

How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?

Light shines but why do many souls desire to stay in darkness?.

If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.

People don't like getting dirty or living in an environment that's been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.