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

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.

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.-Haymitch Abernathy

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Art rides in on pleasure.

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.