My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are asse

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk

Our country is wherever we are well off

The love of one's country is a splendid thing

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesme

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice

As Calcutta smells of death and Bombay of Money, Bangkok smells of sex, but this sexual aroma is mingled with the sharper whiffs of sex and money

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee