President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common