It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

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When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

I'm not witch. I'm your wife.