America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.
Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers.
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.
In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?
When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage.
I'm just really proud of the Democratic caucus. I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
