I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.
It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
