Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. Theyve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.