Quotes About International

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

My priorities? Assisting our allies, the Kurds, in their fight against ISIS.

The G7 doesn't have a permanent secretariat. The OECD can help the G8 and set the agenda for them. The secretary general of the OECD should be going to them proactively and discussing issues and priorities.

The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.

It is said that Cuba is not a priority for the United States... That begs the question why then are there laws... with the objective to attack and to try and control the destiny of Cuba.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

It's - getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS.

Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them.

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

I play music for people all over the world. It's a huge privilege.

In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.

You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege.

It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.

I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.

From making my international debut as a 16-year-old to now 37, it has been a good 21 years of my prime life spent not at home but at the ground - different countries, hotels, grounds, coaches, travel etc. It's been a very privileged journey.

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

Iranian young people are one of the most pro-American populations in the Middle East.

There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.