Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.

In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.

What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges.

Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass media. That led me to work on the FCC's media ownership rules beginning in 2005 to fight media consolidation, working with those at Georgetown's IPR, Media Access Project, Free Press, and others.

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.

Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was the one writing the stuff; I was the producer and mixer. I don't think it's any more weird than writing your autobiography.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

They're grading for audit potential, and the more your return deviates from the norm, the higher your score.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.