We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.
I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.
I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?
You look at the Middle East, it's a total mess.
For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.
In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.
Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.
I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.
In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.
The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone. . . She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.
When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.