The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

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

Failure is the school of greatness.

But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.