We must prepare for everything.

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

If you are prepared, ” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.