American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

It's going to be tough (winning the MVP Award). I'm not really considered a media darling.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day.