More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Paris is always a good idea.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I love driving my car on any highway.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.