Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.
The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.
The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.
Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.
And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
