We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.