When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.

Church History is the record of God's gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?