I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.
I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.
There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.
I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.
You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
