You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.