I Don't Think That (u.s. President) George

I Don't Know What America Has Really Learned. We Are Too Quick To Do What's Expedient On Behalf Of Our Culture Of Greed And Hedonism. We're Quite Prepared To Go To Conditions Of Tyranny In Order To Sustain That Culture, And We Do It In The Name Of Democracy, When Nothing Could Be More Undemocratic. We Do It In The Name Of Saving The Values Of Our Society, When The Way We Behave Corrupts Those Values. We Do It In The Name Of God In Whom We Believe, When In Fact We Have Corrupted Our Own Vision Of The Christian Journey.

The Usa Has More People In Prison That Any Other Country, Including Countries With Much Larger Populations. 13% Of The Population Is Black But 80% Of The People In Prison Are Black, Mostly For Soft Crimes.

Carmen Jones Was The First All-negro Film That Became A Great Box-office Success. It Established The Fact That Pictures With Negro Artists, Pictures Dealing With The Folklore Of Negro Life, Were Commercially Feasible. This Was A Sign Of Growth That Had Occurred In The United States And Throughout The World.

We [americans] Move About The World Arrogantly, Calling Wars When We Want, Overthrowing Governments When We Want. There Is A Price To Be Paid For It -- Look At 9/11. [that] Wasn't Just Bin Laden. Bin Laden Didn't Come From The Abstract. He Came From Somewhere, And If You Look Where ... You'll See America's Hand Of Villainy.

I'm Very Familiar With Poverty. I Find It Easy To Be With, Whether I'm In America Or In Africa Or In Asia. Wherever I Go And Find The Environment Of Those Who Are Living In Poverty And Resisting Poverty Is A Great In Which I Have Great Comfort.