Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.

Everyone learns in a crisis.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

Showing strength is different than showing muscle.

Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.

I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

From my perspective, the state has to assume responsibility for the integrity of international communications.

Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.

You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.

Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

I didn't listen to executives.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.