The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

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