We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

There's no such thing as the United Nations.

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’s time to believe the gnawing.

If voting changed anything... I'd still laugh!

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.