Barbara Buckley Quotes

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

For decades (Americans) haven`t had to worry about other parties in Asia shaping the environment in ways that might be unfavorable to us. But now we are called upon to state what values the US feels are nonnegotiable in the East Asian community, and we haven`t.

This is a very pragmatic approach which was completely absent for the last four years.

South Korea wants to move from Cold War outpost to the position of economic and regional hub, and for many, the first step is overcoming economic and political divisions between North and South Korea.

Name some European companies and chances are average U.S. citizens have heard of a lot of them, which provides an immediate comfort level based on name recognition.

Asians are tired of waiting for Washington to start an Asian process. That`s what this summit shows. In 1990 our (US) mental map of Europe changed drastically (when the Berlin Wall fell). But that has not happened since 1945 in the Pacific.

We still see plenty of upside. That region is still showing the most value.

The first thoughts in my head were, `Are we ready to see the very worst life can throw at us?`

TV didn`t show how cruel this was to them, ... It showed rescues, but not people with no homes, no families because they were gone. It was exhausting in every meaning of the word. You had to push to the limit and push past it. You can`t think of yourself.

These films are a nice enhancement to what we usually do, which is to screen movies that would otherwise go unseen in the Lehigh Valley.