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It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in the 1990s.
What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable.
You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.
Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.
Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.
I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.
The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.
The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.
The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
We did really well for a generation after 1989 and the fall of communism. Our liberal values expanded in the world, our prosperity expanded.
You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well.
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches.
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed
The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.
Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.
These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.
I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs... even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me.
Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.
In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.
It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.
I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.