Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.