In America everything's about who's number one today.
Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.
If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.