When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

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.

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.

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

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.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

The fittest of the fittest shall survive !

I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.

Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

You must be sure - and I mean absolutely positive - that you have the willpower to pay off those credit cards and not use them again.

Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.