President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

An answer is always a form of death.

I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer.

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

There's nothing crazy about not letting our companies bring their money back into their country.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!