Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.