If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

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

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.