I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'bel...
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full...
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are...
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.
Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my...
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the la...
America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed health system, and the most niggardly attitude against its old people.
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsew...
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.
Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out.