2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded....
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...
I want to go to Lapland and see Father Christmas, and now I've got a child, so I've got an excuse. Also, I'd like to go to South America especially as I'm now living in that part of the world, in L.A....
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on t...
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.
For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, law...
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.
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...
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in Am...
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and...
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off...
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.