Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.
Most Americans, I think, know very little about East Asia or Southeast Asia. American businesspeople who have been here, they are very knowledgeable about this area, but the average American? No.
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
In Argentina, everyone knows Manchester United, but the only ones who've heard of Fiorentina are people who follow me.
I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years.
