Quotes About International

Spain formally declared war on 12 December.

Philanthropists and donors traditionally haven't been sufficiently interested in women's rights abroad, giving money instead to higher brow causes such as the ballet or art museums. There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

United Nations Development Programme but may be an

lifetime risk of maternal death is one thousand times higher in a poor country than in the West. That should be an international scandal. The gap, moreover, is getting wider.

After the Saudi plutocrat Khalid bin Mahfouz used English law to attack books that American houses had not even published in England, President Obama signed a law that stated that the US courts should not enforce the orders of English judges against American authors.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

In 2006, after 8 years of losses, Wal-Mart beat a retreat from Germany, selling its stores to Metro, Germany's leading retailer, losing $1 billion in the process.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

The Great Illusion.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

A true International is only possible through the victory of the idea of one race over all others, and not through the dissolution of all opinions into a colourless mass.

Contrary to popular belief or desire, in a global economy, the government is no longer the lead player, it is more an umpire. We

We've hired a lovely nanny, Adelyn, from the Philippines, who shows up in the morning and looks after Bean all day.

Globalization – characterized by roving capital, accelerated communications and quick mobilization – has everywhere weakened older forms of authority, in Europe's social democracies as well as Arab despotisms, and thrown up an array of unpredictable new international actors, from English and Chinese nationalists, Somali pirates, human traffickers and anonymous cyber-hackers to Boko Haram.

One beer too many, and a verbal dispute suddenly and unexpectedly explodes into a punching match. Such things happen every night in bars, pubs, and cafés all across the world, but the bloody noses and aching jaws that generally follow from these dustups in Canada, Norway, or France often turn out to be gunshot wounds in the United States.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

Matamoros, Mexico? Tegucigalpa, Honduras?

It is said that he spoke the language of the greased palm, and this language is international.

The story raises the ugly truth about international banks assisting in the creation of a formidable enemy and then making tons of money financing an American war machine capable of containing it.

Amnesty International should list all daughters as prisoners of war.

discovered, she had tired of what she was doing. Her contract with Derval for the Folies performances was coming to an end. Pepito decided to focus on making her as famous as possible, and he arranged a long tour to 25 countries in Europe and South America. Before starting the tour,

Try to find a medical center that has a finger on the pulse of the latest treatments both nationally and internationally.

These are but two, telling examples of the sad priorities in Australian affairs. The leaders entrusted to protect the country's place in the world are the same people who have to protect their own positions in power. High policy must compete for time and attention with low politics, as well as domestic policy. The big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring.

The NATO treaty says that an attack on any party would automatically be regarded as an attack on all. Instead, the ANZUS treaty says only that an attack on any of the signatories would oblige the others to 'act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes'.