It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.
American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.
Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.
When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
