As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted.

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.

The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.