We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here's to October...

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper.

President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.

As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.

The IT industry is driven by consumer demand.

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.

Most people know my music but will never read my books.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.