It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.
The hamburgers in America are the best in the world.
The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like America now. It helps create a connection that wouldn't have been there if it was 20 white guys on stage.
I don't have to go on a tour to find out what's happening in middle America. I just go to Target.
I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.
At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
Los Angeles has always been one of America's most entrepreneurial cities, but it is hard to recognize this because of how hardwired, literally, 'entpreneurism' has become.
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.
I'd been to Mosul and back and forth to Iraq and Latin America, and it was all quite harrowing... and I felt like I wanted a month or two of total escapism.
President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.
I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.
Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.
One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey.
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.
