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  • World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

  • With God, all things are possible.

    Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.50, Hay House, Inc
  • I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

    Feelings   World   Affair  
    Interview with Eliot Jay Rosen, www.vegetarianusa.com.
  • What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too dangerous to allow disobedience. A leading principle of world affairs - though, of course, officials and commentators put it more politely.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • actions speak louder than words

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster
  • jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

    Art   War   Expression  
  • It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

  • If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

    Country   Strong   Taken  
    "The secret of outstanding leadership" by Lisa Bachelor, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.
  • But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

    Real   Europe   World  
  • Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  • Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.

    Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com
  • Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who's interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.

    Giving   Missing   World  
    "About RealClearPolitics". The Weekly Standard, www.realclearpolitics.com.
  • We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

    Mean   Rights   Goal  
    Ronald Reagan (1983). “Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983”
  • ...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.

    Usa   Oil   Iraq  
  • There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.34, Best Books on
  • To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?

  • A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

  • We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

    Law   Justice   Naked  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.301, Princeton University Press
  • And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

    War   Race   Class  
  • You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

    "A Conversation with President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush". Interview with Mark K. Updegrove, communitytable.parade.com. April 20, 2013.
  • I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

  • When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

    "The Impact of Marcus Garvey" by John Henrik Clarke, www.raceandhistory.com.
  • It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

    "The Clash of Civilizations?". Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com. Summer 1993.
  • I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

    Thinking   World   Affair  
    "Charles Krauthammer on Sarah Palin's Chances in 2012". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2011.
  • Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.

  • My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

    Mother   Father   World  
    Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.
  • It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

    Law   World   Outcomes  
    William Woodruff (1998). “A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present”, p.1, Springer
  • To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

  • America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

    America   World   Arms  
  • Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

    Math   Tests   Answers  
    W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.219, DEBOLS!LLO
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