I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people.
A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.
I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
