I explained to the United States officials here that the Iraqi opposition, Kurds included … have tens of thousands of armed people,

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

We earn nothing from those rights; they’ve had no value in the United States.

The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato...

The two parties are the ones that have to make the hard decisions, but the United States has to be there, … They need a catalyst, they need to have somebody there as an honest...

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

There’s no way we can ask for a treaty that has one standard for the United States and another for the rest of the world.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

There wasn’t even enough meat to make proper fun of [….] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us...

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine...

I think the message is not one about the United States or Japan or the Second World War, right or wrong,

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea...

One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has...

Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama’s Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the...

The United States construction industry is ready to digest this large increase in capacity. Regions with a vibrant economic base dominate the location of plant expansions and the related escalation in private, commercial, and public...

For the first time anywhere in the United States, an appellate court has ruled that such private communities are ‘constitutional actors’ and must therefore respect their members’ freedom of speech.

one of the most immediate threats the United States is likely to face.

This is the single biggest advance in mammography in 30 years, and women throughout the United States now have access to a powerful new tool in the fight against breast cancer,

So it is of significant importance to both Cambodia and other countries in the region, and the United States and the nations of the world that have the capacity, to identify at the earliest possible...

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the...

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The United States remains particularly concerned by the Maoist insurgency, which presents the most immediate threat to a peaceful and prosperous Nepal.

He pondered that a little while and then he asked, do Black people have to pay for their doctors, too? Because that’s what TV programs had said. I smiled a little at this and told...

I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Because of racism, he can’t govern effectively’ is not a great argument for re-election.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that’d be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed before Christmas that they...

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

The corn that is B something 5 corn that’s been genetically altered in the United States, it can’t reproduce but it has huge kernels, it’s very sweet and it’s wonderful but the winds have blown...

In the United States, there are those on both sides of the political spectrum who would seek to close down the US market to China.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America–we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

I feel everyone has rights to be in the United States, but there is a due you have to pay.

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

They could have simply been told, ‘Enter the United States, learn how to fly these types of planes,’ … They may not have known ultimately where this was headed or what the goal was. Then...

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London Review of Books published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward...

It doesn’t happen to me anymore, because a fresh generation of Africans and Asians has arisen to take over the business, but in my early years in Washington, D.C., I would often find myself in...

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world, … per year, Australians do see more films.

Believe me, the United States is very popular now in Iraqi Kurdistan.

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never...

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming,...

The United States has gone the extra mile, in fact, the extra 20,000 miles, back and forth across the Atlantic many times.

As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I’ve never questioned the justification for resorting...

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva...