I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.