"The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic ag..."
"The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint."
"At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that."
"One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing."
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
"I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing."
"His ignorance is encyclopedic."
"Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age."
"I'm not in public life except by accident."
"While other countries may espouse the liberal utopian dream of a global community, it's usually only to get the richer countries to pay more money for the world's problems."
"I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job."
"I happen to like children and I happen to like the arts."
"Federal employees are public servants, not partisan foot soldiers for President Obama, and shouldn't have to decide whether a partisan White House request can be ignored without consequences."
"Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People."
"Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic."
"If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things."
"I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit."
"I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities."
"The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq."
"We can determine our strategic part or strategic options, but the strategic framework is something which will evolve from the interaction of world powers with each other."
"Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment."
"Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so."
"No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton."
"I did not support the U.S. decision to intervene with military force in Libya. The evidence was not persuasive that a large-scale massacre or genocide was either likely or imminent. Policies other than military intervention were never given a full chance."
"Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed."
"The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals."
