But this is the great danger America faces -- that we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups, each seeking to satisfy private wants.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

"When we moved to the city, I was glad to find on this block that there was a little garden where we could become involved, where my son could experience digging and growing things.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

(Speaking) "If there is an agreement, it will be a good thing for the people here, because in this time we have become dead,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

It should be one of the rules. The more people that graduate from communities like this and make something of themselves the way she did, the more we become a more egalitarian society."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

There is going to be greater scrutiny and in security and unfortunately we are just going to have to accept this, that this has become an inevitable part of our lives now whenever we travel abroad, especially for trans-Atlantic flights."

VOA: standard.2009.12.27