I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I have always adopted nondiscriminatory policies toward the LGBTQ community in my public offices in local and state government.

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.