"The spread of freedom is the best security for the free."

"My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious."

"You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky."

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."

"I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking."

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

"The happiness of society is the end of government."

"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."