I'm a big advocate of drones.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

To become successful, you have to let go of something to get something else of greater value.

Don't let them tell us stories

Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

I'm confident in my art.

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.