It's a question of balancing interests.

It's because of tradition. Your family here in America raised you to believe in God. It's a way of showing a little respect.

I would not recommend that we go for two-thirds this year. I'm not sure it's a possibility to get that margin.

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.