Remember, the American grand strategy works when other countries feel secure. But it doesn't work if we acquiesce in the aggression of other countries.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan

At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

Be careful about a policy generated with enthusiasm in the rush of a moment. It usually doesn't turn out well.

Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!

God bless our journey on earth.

Life's messy, " he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart.

That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Endless possibilities is hidden inside the fog of life.

If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'