"The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world."
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body."
"Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world."
"I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing."
"I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world."
"The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower."
"I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere."
"There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world."
"To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money."
"Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door."
"You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear."
"To lead is to be yourself in a world of clones"
"Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?"
"Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet."
"We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world."
"Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American."
"If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand."
"Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well."
"To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy."
"We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous."