Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.