But we take this a little too far.

Of course, we shouldn t overreact.

It would be hard to overestimate the importance of such a declaration.

But it is easy to overstate the significance of this case, too.

Much is being made of high levels of sovereign debt on both sides of the Atlantic, and in Japan.

It s difficult to overstate what these findings mean for climate policy.

Of course, it would be wrong to overemphasize disenchantment and push self flagellation too far.

But it would be a mistake to over learn the lessons that the Arab revolutions have taught about information, technology, and power.

But we should not exaggerate the extent of the IMF s change of heart.

By the same token, reducing expectations means that the significance of the results should not be exaggerated.

Fourth, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of fiscal discipline to longer term growth.

In the context of development, it is difficult to overestimate the significance of regional cooperation, especially in Central Asia.

It is difficult to exaggerate the strange sentiment in the West which one might call Palestine romanticism.

Our triumphs and virtues are exaggerated our villains externalized our failings covered up.

Thus, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of regional issues particularly inter regional disparities for China s politics.

We didn t after the July 7, 2005, attacks on London s public transport system.

We overreact because being human, we feel like retaliating, and it gets worse and worse and worse.

At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the trade balance should not be exaggerated.

French President Jacques Chirac recently implied that we should not overestimate the seriousness of Iran s possessing nuclear weapons.

Consequently, the urgency to consolidate the necessary conditions for durable peace and development throughout the African continent cannot be overstated.

While China s inflation problem should not be exaggerated, complacency would be dangerous.

In this era of proliferating international courts and tribunals, we cannot overstate the importance of the Court's leadership role as the only universal international court with general jurisdiction.

Lest we be too harsh on developing countries, however, let us also remember that political scientists have long worried that greater diffusion of economic power would produce a less stable world economy.

In order to understand that epoch, we have to know and carefully judge often ambiguous and overwhelming circumstances, never simplifying a multilayered daily reality for the sake of current political goals.

Without getting a little too extreme about this, imagine a world where everybody could go out their door and engage in the kind of exercise that's going to make them more relaxed, more serene, more healthy, burn off stress where you don't come back into your office a raging maniac anymore, where you don't go back home with a lot of stress on top of you again.

That's, and I'm going to be fair to the statisticians who talked this morning, not almost 1.5 million people a week, but almost 1.4 million people a week but I'm a journalist, and we exaggerate, so almost 1.5 million people a week, close to 70 million people a year.