Americans tend to become insulated from the foreign world and we get a lopsided view.

Anything that takes me longer than five minutes to answer, however, triggers a request for a face-to-face meeting. I often find that a brief meeting after class can resolve most issues that exceed e-mail treatment, particularly when I need to ask follow-up questions. Generally I reserve office appointments for conversations about a student's grade in the course or other confidential information.

It was a surprise, ... We knew we were going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the First Americans Festival at the opening of the National Museum for the American Indian, with the Smithsonian, but we did not know that we had been invited to sing at the White House until we were already in Washington. So that was pretty exciting.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

I'm a Republican. Let's go out into the world market and try to get a better deal for Americans,

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.