American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.
Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.