Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.