"The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information."

"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?"

"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."

"This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country."

"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."

"God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away."

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the silence between the notes creates the music."