The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.
One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.