Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the matter is we do rely on imported oil to fuel our economy and to fuel our nation.

With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.