In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

You should get out of here. Have a good life.

I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

If the EU doesn’'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides don’t need to waste their time with negotiations.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.