It's easier to screw democracy up than to do it correctly, and we're going to have a lot of serious countries that are going to want to see America fail.
This is a serious country, a country of dignity and self confidence, a great European nation of the future.
But in serious countries, this is not a matter of discussion.
Turkey's foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, called Mr. Gabriel's remarks "threats and blackmail" that were not "worthy of a serious country". He accused Germany of harboring terrorists by "providing shelter" to the Kurdistan Workers Partyy, or P.K.K., and to the followers of the cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey has accused of plotting a failed coup attempt last July.
British football descends into insanity over poppies and the surrounding outrage, and I sit back, thankful that I now live in France, a sane, serious country where that sort of mawkishness could never happen.
"He has helped turn Italy into a serious country again, in the eyes of foreign investors and also many of its own citizens".
By granting the Patriarchate its full rights -- nothing more, nothing less -- Ankara will fulfill its legal obligations and show itself as a serious country committed to the rule of law and a responsible member of the international community.
There are ideas here for every sector of the economy, for every level of government, and for business and nongovernmental organizations, too, all of which should be on the table for any serious country facing the most serious of challenges.
"Italy is a serious country, and we're sick of being an international laughingstock," she said.
Ratings agencies upgraded the country's credit to investor-level – a move that Lula declared as the mark of a "serious country".
