Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

I work in 144 countries. I work in Africa with equal passion, in Latin America with equal passion. I’ve worked in Pakistan with equal passion. So it is a global fight. But I’m proud that India is where this fight began and it began through me. Then, it spread to other countries. We are born in the land of the Mahatma where solutions are made with peace and non-violence. I’ve been working 100% through non-violent means. I strongly believe in the principles of peace in all my fight.

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity.
In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!

Those who want to “spread the wealth” almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market – contrary to rhetoric

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data

In the long run, free trade is a policy that is likely to condemn developing countries to specialize in sectors that offer low productivity growth and thus low growth in living standards.

The most important assumption underlying HOS is that all countries have equal productive capabilities – that is, they can use any technology they want.3

The rich countries also contribute to the brain drain from developing countries by more willingly accepting people with higher skills. These are people who could have contributed more to the development of their own countries than unskilled immigrants, had they remained in their home countries.

In the long run, free trade is a policy that is likely to condemn developing countries to specialize in sectors that offer low productivity growth and thus low growth in living standards.

In literature, there is no such thing as wasted time. Every word counts.

The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other

There is only a sparse handful of exceedingly rich countries that could begin to afford to maintain the bulimically wasteful expense of an American democracy

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

It is in that spirit, the spirit of ’76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace

Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person, I didn’t really realize how famous I was.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.