Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of my son's action.

This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." And he's shot down. That's not the American way of life. A man is innocent until he's proved guilty.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old crow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.