Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than “terror” and “terrorism.” These terms have generally been confined to the use of violence...

We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn’t have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty...

It’s easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush I—almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without...

We would like to invite the United States to consider acceding to the TAC, … Such a step would indeed serve as a symbol of political commitment to the region by the United States.

Now you have a precedent of the United States actually helping these guys come in from the cold. There’s more flexibility.

It is truth, in the old saying, that is ‘the daughter of time,’ and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one...

Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: ‘Nothing human is alien to me.’ The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens...

In the United States, people don’t revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I’m definitely not religious, and I’m very tired of the preachiness and obsession with...

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

He will be passing the message that the United States continues to believe that there should be a prompt return to civilian rule and a restoration of the democratic process in Pakistan.

…Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off...

Unlike the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, India and Pakistan do not have the benefit of a vast ocean between them,

In the end you both live in the same place … You aren’t far apart like the United States and Japan,

As Lynn writes: “What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free...

the American dream.”The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged...

With millions of dollars of funding available through the Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) program to poor air quality ‘non-attainment’ airports throughout the United States, projects like this, where the end product has near zero...

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

Native women are the most sexually assaulted group in the United States. They are ranked 50 percent higher than the next group which is African American women?The vast majority of perpetrators are white men.

June 17, 1972. Nine o’clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested...

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days...

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

scurrilous allegation that somehow the president of the United States was not attentive to the terrorist threat.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

a kind of ludicrous view of the United States.

Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its...

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.

For the United States to get (them) the training and equipment they needed, we had to stitch together at least seven different … authorities.

When you are in the presence of the president of the United States, I don’t care if you’ve been a devout Democrat for the last hundred years, you’re likely to pull your punches to some...

This was the memo that basically justified the United States be involved in torture,

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

It’s been seen more in Europe than in the United States, but it’s a worldwide event.

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

He is not traveling as an official representative of the United States, and he is not carrying a message on behalf of the government of the United States.

The president expressed his regrets and apologized for the accident and said the United States would do all it can to be of assistance to the Japanese government and the Japanese people.

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their...

The Indians, keeping to themselves, laughed at your superior methods and lived from the land more abundantly and with less labor than you did… And when your own people started deserting in order to live...

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism’s importance in maintaining the current system.

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

It’s certainly a major thoroughfare across the United States, and to have it disrupted is not good news for commerce,

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I...

The United States should be on the board, but there’s no rule. The chips fall where they may when you have these elections. It’s just a confluence of events that come together. Sometimes you can’t...

You can’t go wrong going with the United States and picking us as the favorites.

The warning I would like to make to the members of the august council is that the United States and the British were hoodwinked when they were told that the Iraqi people would receive them...

Hamas is regularly described as ‘Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.’ One will be hard put to find something like ‘democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state...

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a ‘gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.’ Being...

We are shifting to an outright recession scenario in the United States, and, in response, we are slashing our forecast of the global economy for 2001,

We seek a peaceful relation with the United States, a cooperative relation, an equal relation.

In Montana, West Virginia, and the rest of the United States, coal is definitely the electricity source of the foreseeable future.

It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until ‘Juneteenth’. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their...