American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.
Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
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.'
