Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women Caucasian women they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men women and children.

Black women have always been these vixens these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free and proud and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

America is a land where men govern but women rule.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement of wisdom of refinement with the democratic ideals of openness of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans or Filipinos I should say and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

In a world of inhumanity war and terrorism American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession a war of independence no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

World War II the atomic bomb the Cold War made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

If Scotland and America go to war I'm afraid I've already sworn in.