The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

A sacred spiritual-life is the greatest gratification

They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men's Souls to Greatness...

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.