I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.
Don't allow your negative thoughts and beliefs to bully you into a state of living that you didn't bargain for.
The more I inspire others to search and discover their true positive purpose on earth, the more meaningful my state of existence becomes.
Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.
There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
