There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

Speak less but act more.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

When you're out there in Vancouver doing your thing, and then you come down and you see how positive people are - people who are so jazzed and so supportive.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

I don't know. I've never been on second before.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.