The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

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.

You can be inspired externally but when it comes down to achieving your lofty goals it's all personal determination which is internal derived from the eternal.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future.