the best relations with the United States.

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the...

The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not retreat into an ignorant garrison-state mentality or wallow in self-righteous cultural hedonism

Previous research has shown that every spring there are massive dust storms in Asia that transport soil eastward to Japan and across the Pacific to the United States. Now we’ve found that sulfate and organic...

We believe that broadening and deepening the relationship is important for the United States and for Libya. That is what our liaison office is working on. And as we make progress on issues of mutual...

It is important to emphasize and tell them very clearly that we working with the United States and they have come to help us liberate Iraq and that we are interested in having a decent...

A local phrase book, entitled Speak in Korean, has the following handy expressions. In the section ‘On the Way to the Hotel’: ‘Let’s Mutilate US Imperialism!’ In the section ‘Word Order’: ‘Yankees are wolves in...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

The U.S. dollar might grind a little higher as the United States comes back from a long weekend. But I think it is going to be a quiet week.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as...

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

and that 90 percent of the arrangements for an attack on the United States were complete. The color-coded warning system is not raised. The Homeland Security secretary, Tom Ridge, does not attend the announcement. Number...

The United States will continue to do its share, … other members of the alliance need to do much, much more. This will increase the confidence of our Congress that both Europe and the United...

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible

A major hurricane – a Category 3, 4 or 5 – can’t come ashore anywhere in the United States without causing a major disaster,

America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin...

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words ‘Special Relationship’ to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the...

Some people collect cars. I collect unemployment. Once my collection gets large enough, I’m going to start a country like the United States.

A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.

It takes a high level of training and commitment skills to represent the Red Cross outside of the United States.

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of...

The Role of the United States in World Affairs.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

If the United States wants to get involved in guerrilla warfare around the world, we ought to ask ourselves very carefully whether that makes sense and what our stakes are in it. We didn’t ask...

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can’t be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on...

My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of ‘if you are not hurting anyone, and you’re not fucking with someone else’s shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be...

All along, the United States has been concerned with the fact that the timetable to develop a test to protect the country on missile defense was bumping into the ABM Treaty. The bump was about...

Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like ‘a plantation,’ adding in a...

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things...

In a 10-year period, he became a millionaire, the governor of Texas, and the president of the United States,

This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But...

If you convict and remove President Clinton on the basis of these allegations, no president of the United States will ever be safe from impeachment again, … And it will happen. And people will look...

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

We are strongly opposed to that the United States is allowing Lee Teng-hui to tour it.

Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

They want to reduce the external threat from the United States, but they also want to be sure that this issue will not be hijacked by the American right-wingers and racists in imposing a policy...

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if...

We are fossil fuel addicts. What happens when drug addicts detox? They can be rash, cranky, even psychotic and dangerous. It would be good for the environment if the entire economy abruptly quit fossil fuels,...

Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, ‘Duck.

The United States … reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, the United States could not lose the war or be seen as losing the war.’If we’re not successful here,’...

During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and ‘experience’ to argue that, yes, Saddam Hussein was indeed a threat. She did not argue so much...