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I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

Ron Wyden

American

Now

Oil

President

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Chely Wright

American

Republican

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

Paul Wolfowitz

American

Job

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

Tobias Wolff

American

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.