"The ideal #USAID recipient of funds and guidance combines the characteristics of a teacher's pet with the naughtiest boy in class. This schizoid personality disrupts the classroom teacher/local authorities but is craven towards real authority's power. It likes earning treats from the master like a performing seal for mocking the people lower down the hierarchy which the boss wants to keep on their toes."
Mark Almond
"In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. "
-- James Monroe, speech to the US Congress on December 2, 1823