The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

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.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

You can do nothing without prayer and everything with it. Anything worth worrying about is something worth praying about.

We Create God, Mankind's Nature.

Matthew licked the fright induced sweat from his victim’s temple then bit a quarter sized piece of flesh from her right cheek as she flayed wildly under him.

I cherished my time playing high school sports.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.