The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of…

I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a…

— David Farr

We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first…

— Carlo Ratti

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states…

— Paul Cellucci

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

— Kofi Annan

The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“The only thing worse than too much government is too little: in failed states, people suffer at least as much violence and injustice as…

— Tony Judt

The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and…

— Ahmed Rashid

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this…

— Paul Cellucci

If I had to describe myself in one word its annoying...

— Jasmine

Everyone's gonna have their opinion, everyone's gonna have their favorite bands. The best way I can describe it is music is like food, either…

— Phil Anselmo

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

I'd happily describe myself as a TV presenter now.

— Rachel Riley

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term…

— Barry Ritholtz