If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

From the way children are treated society can be judged.

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

If you don't master money, it's going to master you.

I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.