Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

Carbon dioxide is....being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

What's happening in Russia of course is you have a country watching out for its national interest.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

He told her, You are a wise woman. Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I?

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.