President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.