I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we've been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan. But in a democracy, you salute.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.