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

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

The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

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