Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change.

Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.