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For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

To work in your first film, in your debut as a lead, to work with the finest artists of the country - who doesn't want to do that?

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back.

Every country has a dark side of their history.

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA of this country, like we saw in Ava DuVernay's film '13th.' The cycle keeps repeating itself.

When I first read 'Lovecraft Country' I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television.

New York is really the cheapest ad market. When I go on TV, I'm hitting a country. The market is as big as some countries, you know.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities.

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

When my country was born, many people were sceptical about the chances for us to exist, let alone prosper.

My own country, Slovakia, has been there for South Sudan and its people. We made South Sudan a priority country of our official development assistance and humanitarian aid.

I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.