To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.