What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

…praise does not make anything better or worse.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does.

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.