Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
