Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it let alone in the United States of America.

One ever feels his twoness - an American a Negro two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Even though I love solar and love wind like most people do I like the renewable sources they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

To own the dominant or only newspaper in a mid-sized American city was for many decades a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age however no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age or in times of disability to insure financial income for their families.

As an American you have a right to good health care that is effective accessible and affordable that serves you from infancy through old age that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day more than 2 000 girls in America age 15-19 give birth - in the wealthiest most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother.