I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very diff...
I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.
Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum...
The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an e...
On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.
We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all income...
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
America is a willingness of the heart.
The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
American diversity rarely applies to money and success.
Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then i...
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving...
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labo...
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discri...