It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

American influence is not what it used to be.

The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher'...Not that he would.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.