The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

I love and enjoy every moment. Is there anything more beautiful that I could do with that moment?

Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

... women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

I grew up in New York.