"When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'"

"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

"I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world."

"Law is always better than war."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"You're always going to have extremists in every religion."

"When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."