Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.

I think war should be illegal.