You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

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.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.

The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

When I find my consort, I plan to stab him in the heart before he can cause me a moment's unease. -Taliyah

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It's time for a new theory.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.