There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

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.

The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.

I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.