No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done.
I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.
Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.
I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.
Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.
When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.
There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people's living rooms across the country.
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
