It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is poss...
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.
As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.
The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.
When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.