The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
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.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secre...
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.
I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.
A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.
