The precondition to freedom is security.

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.