It's fun being in Islamic countries to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.
He didn't want to tell his son what to do but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.
It is not really our country so much is the problem it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada and France and other countries have towards us.
Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
Building a good stable and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples and also contributes to peace and development.
What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world one that operates according to democratic rules and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.
Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries we know that. And this doesn't change anything.
The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless ally does not mean aligned.
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women.
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
Only the change on the international scene the crisis in the gulf and the strong firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
But since independence Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners peace has to be learned.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries now it has changed to developing countries it's much more polite.
Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition men have at all times and in all countries called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine beer opium brandy or tobacco.