After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.