I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.