The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

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.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

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.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.

To sate your need without love is theft

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.