I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.