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.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

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.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

We must change our way of thinking, correct our plans and envision new ways of attaining our goals

She spent the first half of her life alone. For the second half, she longed for a man of dignity to rescue her.

Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.