There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

The worst enemy of our humanity is our self-doubt.

I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.

Before someone lifts a finger at me, I make sure he washed his hands before.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

Golf isnt a game its a choice that one makes with ones life.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.