We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

War is what happens when language fails.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

War settles nothing.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.