Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.
A president cannot make decision on what someone might know in the future.
Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance. My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.
[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.
I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law
For years we have seen people coming on rafts, etc. , but now we are seeing people entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama and then they have nowhere to go because those countries are not - for example, in Nicaragua, the border was closed. I've always said that I'm open to a study on how can it be changed.
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
U. N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U. N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.