'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

Poetry is the sound of the human animal.

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Out of what... a thousand?

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.