You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.
Cyber will be part of any future conflict - whether it's a nation state or terrorism.
The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
Vladimir Putin doesn't really gain anything economically from annexation of Crimea. It's more a gain of power. It's a gain of what he can say to his home population about what he's accomplished as president. And so it's really much more an individual gain for Putin politically than for Russia as a state, because over the long term, Russia is not going to particularly benefit from this.
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.