I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.
You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.
I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.
When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.
Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.
I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never return to corruption, and that Georgia will be independent.
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.
