Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.

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.

Be brave to chase your dreams.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act.

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.