It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.
There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.
Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up, you know, in Middle America or the middle of Canada or something. It's a very movie town.
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.
In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.
Limbaugh can rightly be said to be the greatest populist expositor of conservatism in America since Reagan, and the link between the Reagan generation and the so-called Rush Babies.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
