Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons fuel food money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working are cooperating either being themselves the origin or the transit.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

Who sows fear reaps weapons.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons and talents as materials you can mine assay and fabricate for profit and defense.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.