Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. Theyve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

May the Lord give us a new spirit and new heart

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?