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In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.
Teju Cole
Life
Legal
Law
State
Weak
Punishment
Intractable
System
Out
Rarely
Law Enforcement
Properly
Structural
Take
Countries
Combined
Courts
Exist
Mob
Legal System
Human
Where
Poor
Capital
Capital Punishment
Enforcement
Human Life
Injustices
Right
Societies
Belongs
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
Terry Bradshaw
Me
People
Thought
Sit
Down
Other
Other Countries
Corrected
Football
He
Countries
New
Him
Geography
New Mexico
Mexico
Up
Grew
Anyway
Brian
Cool
Agreed
Play
Play Football
Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.
Terry Glavin
Freedom
World
Become
Top
Press
Rank
Out
Borders
Net
Journalists
Countries
House
Dead
Without
Reporters
List
Jailer
Again
China
Last
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
Terry Pratchett
Day
Amazing
Fans
Other
Once
Married
Some
Someone
Weddings
Countries
New
Like
Caustic
Been
Amazing Things
Comment
Different
Different Countries
Race
Ceremony
Pagan
Breeding
Things
Here
Suggesting
Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.
Thaksin Shinawatra
Life
Time
Family
Me
You
Political
Citizen
Sacrifice
Society
Enough
Enough Is Enough
Back
Arena
Outside
Countries
Political Arena
Go
Private
Private Citizen
Been
Years
Thai
Contribute
Family Life
Six
Working
Your
Working Hard
Hard
Even
Serve
I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.
Thaksin Shinawatra
Disappointed
Countries
Coup
Very
There is not much awareness about fitness in India, unlike other countries. We don't get too many medals at Olympics; one of the reasons is we don't have that culture of fitness in India. That is why we decided to start this chain of gyms under my name.
The Great Khali
Fitness
Culture
Awareness
Too
Other
Other Countries
Unlike
India
About
Countries
Name
Get
Decided
Much
Reasons
Many
Chain
Medals
Why
Start
Olympics
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel
Survival
Pride
Matter
Nation
National
France
Must
Both
Shame
Put
Smaller
Support
Countries
Understood
Cultural
Ireland
Austria
Arts
Poorer
Much
Sweden
Who
Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
Theresa May
Technology
World
Action
Crimes
Plot
Horrific
Taking
Countries
Abuse
New
Track
Terrorists
New Technology
Them
Across
Help
Who
Now
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life
Man
People
Own
Those
Circumstance
Prolonged
Out
Details
Absence
He
Countries
Sharply
Until
Make
Returns
Always
Foreign
Foreign Countries
His
Impression
Surroundings
Very
Same
After
Which
Newest
While
Little
Land
Then
Stand
We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?
Thomas Pogge
Obligations
Wealth
Needy
Our
Distant
Hungry
Citizens
Give
Abroad
Tend
Mainly
Toward
Countries
Terms
Redistribution
How
How Much
Discuss
Affluent
Donations
Any
Transfer
Much
Should
Away
Assistance
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
Tim Berners-Lee
Good
You
People
Will
Websites
Translation
Live
Enough
Machine
See
Browse
Allow
Countries
Know
How
Get
Different
Whether
Different Countries
Us
Languages
Eventually
If you look at the automobile in many countries, there is a certified pre-owned market for Lexus, BMW, and many other brands. When you buy a high-end smartphone, you can expect the same kind of a situation there.
Tim Cook
Buy
You
Situation
Other
Market
Kind
High-End
Countries
Look
Expect
Brands
Same
Automobile
Certified
Many
Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.
Tim Hetherington
Me
World
Understanding
Changed
Worlds
Everything
Countries
Go
Lot
Same
Going
Grew
Happening
Interconnected
Apart
Realize
Planet
Poorest
Really
Richest
Two
Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.
Tim Holden
Democracy
World
Anti-Semitism
Increased
Several
Some
Strongest
Throughout
Countries
Over
Frequency
Years
Scope
Including
Acts
Last
Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.
Tim Pratt
Life
Every
Other
Once
Borders
Some
Crossed
Direction
Never
Countries
New
Discover
Again
Them
Across
Full
Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.
Tina Brown
Education
Women
Amazing
Extremists
Charge
Emerging
Taking
Countries
Like
Mothers
Doing
Amazing Things
Lot
Whether
Places
Washington
Pakistan
Things
I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.
Tina Brown
Women
Thinking
About
Countries
Vulnerable
How
Women Are
Many
Keep
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent.
Todd Young
Democracy
Rights
Country
Judgment
Sit
Own
Human Rights
Liberal
Liberal Democracy
States
Further
Worst
Deflect
Possible
Must
Silent
Seek
Records
Attempt
Attention
Countries
Abuse
Undermined
Pass
Israel
Human
Vibrant
United
United States
Credibility
The president has largely taken a hands-off approach in Syria and granted it as a legitimate sphere of interest to countries like Iran and like Russia. This is very bad policy, and it's going to lead to very dangerous consequences for our partners in the region, which is why so many of them are so opposed to U.S. policies.
Tom Cotton
Dangerous
Consequences
President
Approach
Our
Sphere
Syria
Bad
Russia
Lead
Taken
Countries
Like
Policies
Policy
Partners
Opposed
Iran
Very
Going
Legitimate
Which
Interest
Region
Them
Granted
Many
Largely
Why
The forces that led to radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, can ultimately only be defeated by moderate Muslims around the globe, countries like U.A.E. that have led the fight within their own border to promote tolerance.
Tom Cotton
Fight
Islam
Own
Radical
Tolerance
State
Muslim
Muslims
Border
Promote
Brotherhood
Only
Countries
Like
Globe
Forces
Islamic
Within
Around
Led
Ultimately
Moderate
Radical Islam
Al
Al-Qaeda
Defeated
The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries - the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan - do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it.
Tom Cotton
Celebrate
World
Islam
Radical
Has-Been
Muslims
All-Around
Percentage
Small
Jordan
Highlight
Countries
Calling
Forces
Around
Continue
Been
West
Years
Encourage
Up
Very
Moderate
Egypt
Stand
Stand Up
Large
Large Number
Number
Need
The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.
Tom Frieden
World
Result
Control
Sector
Rapidly
Seeing
Emergence
Countries
Importance
Ineffective
Around
Private
Private Sector
Infection
Improve
Begun
Tuberculosis
Irrational
Done
Patients
Places
Poorly
Using
Medications
Treating
Program
In addition to not stopping the spread of Ebola, isolating countries will make it harder to respond to Ebola, creating an even greater humanitarian and health care emergency. Importantly, isolating countries won't keep Ebola contained and away from American shores.
Tom Frieden
Health
Care
Will
Addition
Respond
Emergency
Contained
Countries
Make
Health Care
Greater
Spread
Importantly
American
Shores
Stopping
Creating
Even
Keep
Away
Harder
Humanitarian
We have to bake labor provisions into the core of an agreement. TPP would do that. Under NAFTA, countries had to simply promise to uphold the laws of their own nations.
Tom Perez
Own
Promise
Would
Laws
Had
Simply
NAFTA
Countries
Bake
Provisions
Labor
Uphold
Nations
Agreement
Core
If you think data about illegal alien crime is hidden from public, just try to find information on the contagious diseases brought across our borders by illegal aliens from nearly 100 countries.
Tom Tancredo
You
Try
Crime
Alien
Think
Our
Hidden
Find
Borders
Brought
About
Data
Contagious
Countries
Diseases
Just
Information
Public
Across
Illegal
Illegal Aliens
Nearly
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