I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.
Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.
Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.