"Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift."

"When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform."

"I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families."

"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."

"You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering."

"The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy."

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

"Wisdom principle 60 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 65."