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.

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.

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.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.