You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

Everyone learns in a crisis.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

Showing strength is different than showing muscle.

Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.

I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

From my perspective, the state has to assume responsibility for the integrity of international communications.

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea, ' to quote Gandhi.

If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

You meet a better class of person in pubs.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.