Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right – that it sometimes discourages innovation – then we should worry.

Play is under attack in our nation’s schools – and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of...

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation’s university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy...

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth.

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation’s capital just as well.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can’t walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an...

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry...

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

A traitor leader is the outcome of a fool nation.

I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation’s great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation’s great public servants.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass...

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind’s eye as to how it should be, you’d better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides...

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation’s national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals – people good and bad...

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of...

After singing ‘Same Love’ across the nation, it’s given me faith that I’ve underestimated the straight world.

We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation...

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for...

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don’t want to be known for having the oldest state in...

I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did.

If a nation’s security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation’s immigration...

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Dans un pays où les décideurs s’évertuent à construire une villa à leurs rejetons là où il est question de leur b tir une nation, il n’est pas rare de rencontrer des talents chevronnés trimer...

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you...

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process....

Međutim, onaj ko ne voli pripadnike drugih naroda, ne voli, naglasio sam, ni svoj narod, te ako kažem da ne volim strance, ja u isto vreme priznajem da živim u praznini, lišen bilo čije ljubavi....

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced...

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.