People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

[He said that nobody likes the idea of people dying at the border,] but if the United States would gear up the political will to enforce its laws, it would actually be an act of compassion, ... The border is something the United States can certainly control. If we caught them, they wouldn't be losing their lives.

No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.