constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

India is growing at 8 percent. China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.