I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.
The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.
I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and ...
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
