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.

American Idol transcends age gender ethnicity everything.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America but I remember as being a very very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.

America doesn't reward people of my age either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America and one in four infants toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because if Europe comes apart the E.U. comes apart then you're going to have enormous impact on America that's a very big trading partner of ours and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.