Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

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.

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.

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.

EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.