The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.