#international

The Possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear stage is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on the score. -Peter Goss. ↗

— Joel C. Rosenberg

#politics #intelligence

The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits. ↗

— Paul Collier

#public-opinion #intelligence

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #internationalism #libertarianism #politics #religion

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#acts #against #am #convinced #further

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#am #colleagues #elementary #feel #fraternity

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#cheaper #course #economically #english #films

The World Cup is a truly International event. ↗

— John Motson

#event #international #truly #world #world cup

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#areas #cooperative #draw #economy #exploit

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#age #biggest #biggest problems #century #face

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#bringing #committed #community #country #demonstrate