Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.
I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
