I'm Happy To Have My Own Opinion

Television Has Created A Nation Of News Junkies Who Tune In Every Night To Get Their Fix On The World.

We Spent A Month In Japan Last Year, A Week In Istanbul For The United Nations, And Nearly Three Months In My Native Nova Scotia, Where My Two Brothers Have Homes; And We'll Go Back There This Summer.

After I Became A Citizen, I Felt Freer To Say What I Thought About This Country, Both Negative And Positive. I Think I Had Been, Consciously And Subconsciously, Biting My Tongue In The Past.

Change Is Legitimate And Inevitable, For Our Language Is A Mighty River, Picking Up Silt And Flotsam Here And Discarding It There, But Growing Ever Wider And Richer.

Well, I Had A Small Degree, That Little Infection Of Skepticism About America Which Resides In The Minds Of Even America's Closest Friends. That America Can't Be Quite As Good As It Says It Is. And Why Does It Need So Relentlessly To Keep Saying How Good It Is?