There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

It’s totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone...

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I’d do it in the last three days.

We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, ‘Why are we having this relationship when it’s not benefiting anybody?’ Obviously, my...

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they...

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because...

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their...

Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

I will stay in the car until the last minute that I’m going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn’t last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn’t endure, or can’t be logically proved and pinned down,...

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

‘The Last Five Years’ was a musical in 2002, and it’s a deconstruction of a marriage.

I can’t wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that’s going to be the exclamation point.

I don’t know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or...

I don’t tell many people my last name.

I can’t tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can’t maintain that same work level in 2001, so I’ve got to quit something.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

I saw many people who begun their marathon races lately, but they eventually came up as top winners. I believe that your “lateness” does not account for your “lastness”. It’s not too late for you...

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to...

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’

I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That’s why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that’s not...

I pitched my last children’s show presentation in the mid 1980’s. The era of locally produced children’s shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children’s television.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain’s defence for the last 60 years… I will not allow...

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

I’m scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I’m a laser.

I’d be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They’re entitled to do whatever they want.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer – just a singer.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

I’m not afraid. I never liked long last acts.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you’re making airline reservations.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o’er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

I’m not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

With some artists, I’ve noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album you can totally hear they’re trying to write a song for ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and it doesn’t work. It’s just...

Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.

…the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn’t have...

We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men.

It’s always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It’s always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it’s really hard...