Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Life is a heroic faith.

Follow your heart only if it has your mind's feet.

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.