Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.
Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.
Style is timeless. It transcends generations - it's enduring. If you're thinking about fashion, it's of the moment. And that doesn't mean that it's not important at times to embrace trends and that type of thing, but style is less about trends than it is about how you carry yourself.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
I love you more than my own skin.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.
People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.
I think this is the story of this country, that you get to come here and build a better future for yourself and for your neighbours than you could have anywhere else in the world.
We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.
When it comes to my health, I would rather my doctor base her decisions on science rather than what she, or some lawyer, thinks will stand up in court.
The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
'Outlander' is based on a group of books; there's a slight fantasy element to it, but ours is authentic - we try to stick to historical accuracy as possible. Ours is about a small group of people and a core relationship rather than big armies.
I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.
