All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.