Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.
I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.
The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.
It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.
In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.
Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
