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.

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

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.

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...

Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that’s ever performed for the U.S. Olympic Committee. She’s been a leader, she’s been gracious, she’s somebody that cares for so...

The United States is, at the moment, not well prepared to manage an [emergency] evacuation of this sort in the relevant time frame,

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed ‘special relationship’ between our two countries.I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it...

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

It is something the United States cares a great deal about. And the president is worried about the humanitarian conditions.

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is...

Consider the great Samuel Clemens. Huckleberry Finn is one of the few books that all American children are mandated to read: Jonathan Arac, in his brilliant new study of the teaching of Huck, is quite...

If Libya were to do that, then Libya would be complying, and the families and the United States that have sought justice would be getting the justice that has been denied so long.

What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be...

The United States must do something favorable to the smooth development of Sino-U.S. relations, rather than make remarks that confuse right and wrong and are harmful to relations,

I was disappointed because the president of the United States had just confessed to engaging in an extramarital affair with a young woman in his employ and to willfully deceiving the nation about his conduct.

Some of the top aquariums in the United States, none have had two months of over 300,000 attendants. When we see this kind of data we’re getting, we’re not even in peak season yet, it...

This is a major long-term investment. If it’s going to be undermined for unjustified reasons, that will tell Arab investors and governments to keep away from the United States.

I’m saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That’s all I’m saying.

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of...

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (…) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that...

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, … I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use...

To continue to foster consistency between both licensing programs, Microsoft has decided to make available for the desktop protocols the same reference license for source code it is offering for server protocols, and the company...

The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast...

The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the ‘Super’, i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole....