History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.
We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?