Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.
I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.
Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.
The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
