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It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.