"There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that."

"The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization."

"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies."

"Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program."

"We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect."

"When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not."

"The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it."

"People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point."