The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

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.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Sometimes when Anna is talking to Louise she sees words coming out of her mouth like fistfuls of stones. But she doesn't intend to spew stones

Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

If you crave something, I’ll be the one to give it to you. All of your needs, Eva, are mine to fulfill. Whatever it costs me.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.