The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

I don't think there is much American music.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.