This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.

Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?

I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even if you work with Russia, I'm just not sold that working with Russia is an effective way to hasten the end of the Assad regime or to enact any type of punitive measures.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.