First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.
For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.
People don't really know about 'Neighbours' in America, and if they have heard of it, it's only in the context of 'Oh, sure, that's what Guy Pearce was on', or Kylie Minogue.
You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers - it's all or nothing.
I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.
Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.
An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush.
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.