All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans

Spread in several countries can no longer be traced to clearly-defined chains of human-to-human transmission. Further spread is considered inevitable. (June 11, 2009)

Although the pandemic appears to have moderate severity in comparatively well-off countries, it is prudent to anticipate a bleaker picture as the virus spreads to areas with limited resources, poor health care, and a high...

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender—let me say—you are not alone. Your struggle for the end to violence and discrimination is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call...

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

I see Turkey’s future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

In most of the European countries – France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism – the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by...

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

I never did very well as an immigrant. I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.

The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten thousand miles away.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

What Israel wants is peace with – and the acknowledgment of – all the Arab countries.

The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It’s not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog....

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This...

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Elected presidents are for countries.

I’m a man without a country. Or I’m a man with too many countries-you pick. Ultimately, in both global politics and the high school power hierarchy, they amount to the same thing.

There’s no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn’t a right but a privilege.

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname – he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north...

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries.

Don’t put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family’s life have been enriched by this. I...

The contracts for Iraqi rebuilding are commercial contracts. I think being in the coalition of the willing puts us in the radar screen, but we also have to compete with other countries that are in...

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries...

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

How do you eat your roots?

Today, a lot of people, businesses, countries and even churches have their dreams sleeping in the belly of the shark where they are starved because they chose the wrong path although they know the right...

I think no matter where you go, you’ll be happy as long as you know why you’re there.

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

‘Game of Thrones’ has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it’s complete fantasy.

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

Basically, people in other countries don’t want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.