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.
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.
There's still a lot of Americans who think that those who perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 came from Canada, which is absolutely and totally incorrect.
According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.
The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.
The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.