Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

The pursuit of happiness seems worthwhile only because of the chase. You love it only if you don’t realize you’re never going to catch up.

Meditation' an exercise to keep positive things in mind by getting rid of the negatives

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.