China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

All good things comes to those who wait.

I'm a win-at-all-costs guy.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.

Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.