More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure.Just a little girl.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.