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

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.

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.

I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

Our truest reflection reveals that we are what we think, we are what we say and we are what we continuously do.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

When hosting a party, move any clutter from the space where you're entertaining.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment