Frank McCourt Quotes
For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.
The minister had refused to be pressured by the George W. Bush Administration to sign an agreement with the US agreeing never to turn over an American or foreign national working for America to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Even if a Costa Rican or other non-American were working for an American Agency as an informant, agent, or other role, the country could not respect the treaty obligations that they had made with regard to the ICC. Costa Rica was punished losing $400,000 aid. Nations were so punished while the State Department was spending huge sums to remedy negative opinion that so many nations had developed for the US during the George W. Bush administration. See {585493},65901 & {585495}, for more quotations on this. The US did not join the ICC Treaty as in a some countries political considerations and different ethical values have labeled some American legitimate behavior as criminal and have attempted to hold individuals responsible for carrying out lawful orders
Actually this is an ancient Roman Proverb.
Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
