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The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

It's good to do something for Americans for once.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.