#region

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#conflicts #degraded #distribution #global #going

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bolivia #constitution #different #framework #goal

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region. ↗

— Evo Morales

#indigenous #indigenous people #leaf #people #region

Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#entire #example #future #how #india

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces. ↗

— John Negroponte

#american #bolster #center #central #doing

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#century #depends #even #more #our

Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#carried #china #forward #important #important message

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#any #down #every #got #had

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#between #choice #conflicts #confront #costly