The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.
Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.
In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
