I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go, I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people.
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover.
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.
If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
