I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

Any surplus is immoral.

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.

When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person.

If I don't wear a wig, I'm called a nasty f*g, if I do wear a wig, I'm hilarious.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.