There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

No matter what the bards may say, there’s no romance in dying for a man.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.