I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.
I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.
We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
