The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I like the Klitschko boys, I think they're in a class of their own. I like Manny Pacquiao. All the super-middleweights are great.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.