The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'
The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
I think it's unfair to say that Chinese companies are squeezing out American companies. China has so many solar companies that are failing, too.
Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies.
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for want of trying.
It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.
Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.
I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.
As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.
