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I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

William Christopher Handy

Music

America

American

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Tom T. Hall

American

College

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.