The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

I'm calling the police, " she said, showing him the phone in her hand.He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. "You don't need the police."No, of course she didn't How silly.

He's barely said anything and I already know this guy is gross, ' she told the girls. 'If the zombies come at us, we feed them him first.

Don’t be afraid of being yourself, but be afraid of being somebody else.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.