The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

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.

Some of our friends put our enemies out of work.

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should

Every day theres something new. Something's going to destroy us all. Then it disappears.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.