The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.

Everyone learns in a crisis.

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

Showing strength is different than showing muscle.

Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.

I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

From my perspective, the state has to assume responsibility for the integrity of international communications.

Living a daring life is zealous pursuit.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.