The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

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

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.

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

When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.