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

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.

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.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.