"You cannot make men good by law."

“If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'”

“Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.”

Source : Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

“The extremists took over the primary process.”

Source : "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

“Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.”

“It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.”

“I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete [Jackson] has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.”

Source : "I'll never move to Hollywood, says Saoirse Ronan" by Antoinette Kelly, www.irishcentral.com. February 18, 2010.

“We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.”

“At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.”