As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.