The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,a….

There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied w….

We want to take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them..

In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restor….

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your co….

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games..

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country..

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that l….

Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic sla….

It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, no….

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the thin….

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story neve….

I think Americans want to believe in this country again..

Sometimes dramas or happenings from 10 or 20 years ago are kept alive by people on a daily basis, whether it's personal issues or bigger things such ….

I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but o….

Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second co….

Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. It has gone from being a sending country for migrants to a transi….

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking..

We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology ….

One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country is mine," or "I will ma….

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country..