Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half?

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.