Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Where did you get your sadness from? I picked it up on the side of the road. Itwas bleeding and scratched and keeninglike a mangled thing, but it looked toobeautiful for me to just walk away.

God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!

I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weeping and never stop.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.