The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.