All politics is local.
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Mr. Obama is the first president to have grown up in the region - he lived in Indonesia as an elementary school student - and he has never doubted that America is underinvested in Asia and overinvested in the Middle East.
So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.
President Obama has made the Asia Pacific region a focus of his foreign policy, and Vietnam - a large, growing economy in the heart of Southeast Asia - is critical to those efforts.
My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.
If I was going for the popular vote I would've won easily. But I would've been in California and New York. I wouldn't have been in Maine. I wouldn't have been in Iowa. I wouldn't have been in Nebraska and all of those states that I had to win in order to win this. I would've been in New York, I would've been in California. I never even went there.
I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.
In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.
Since taking office, President Obama has pursued a policy that focused more American resources and engagement in the Asia-Pacific, a region that will increasingly define opportunity and security in the 21st century.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.
I am committed and content to work for the people of Odisha. I have no national ambitions whatsoever.
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad.
I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
We will be all about the local, not the global.
Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.
We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England.
