Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.
I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;
I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
