We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Motivation is internal. It has to come from within you. Do not seek it anywhere else.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.

On and on you will hike. And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

The spectator is a dying animal.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."