32 Quotes by Peter Beck

The risk of this agreement is exactly what many hawks in Washington had warned about. You reduce the sense of urgency and let people grow comfortable with the status quo.

Presently, they don't seem eager to find a solution. Rather, they appear to be enjoying the status quo.

The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine.

There's a new assertiveness in terms of dealing with the foreign aid community, ... That reflects a confidence that they can better manage their food situation.

I told him that if he wins, he'll still need to finish his homework... I'd hate to have to suspend a city official.

It looks like Tehran has taken a page out of Pyongyang's brinkmanship playbook.

It's getting darker by the day. We are slowly moving towards a showdown with North Korea.

It shows at least on the surface that the North would like to embrace China's reforms.

It sounds cliched but we live in a tough world at the moment and to jump away for two hours and look at some lovely costumes, hear a great band play with some great singers, to watch two people connect on the floor is a nice way to forget about all this other stuff.