America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.
I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.
I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
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.
