Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.
A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.
We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.
