"We have a lot of ships coming in and transmitting to us and bringing the information. So, it's very powerful."

“I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.”

“The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.”

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”

“But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.”

Source : "How Will Leadership Changes Affect National Security Policy?". "PBS NewsHour", carnegieendowment.org. April 28, 2011.

“When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.”

“Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.”

“It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.”

“I've never been one of those to kind of like, 'I want somebody to do something against their nature to titillate me.' That never holds any interest. And I always want people to be who they are and if they're being not who they are I feel like it's false and, therefore, less easy to connect to. I don't need them to kiss or to display physical intimacy. I think that almost becomes too obvious. I love playing in the suggestive.”