Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People are only rational on the surface.

Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

One smile heals the planet because it spreads like a virus from one to the next without care for the perfect environment.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

Does management resist the institutional imperative?