Emigration forced or chosen across national frontiers or from village to metropolis is the quintessential experience of our time.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week at a national citizenship conference I organize thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

I'm afraid based on my own experience that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth technical power and nationalism.

But reducing harmful emissions abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health they improve personal health enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law democracy security and sustainable economic and environmental development.