I remember how, when I lived in Paris, there was a McDonald's, and I'd always see Americans eating there and think, 'Why do they come all the way to Paris and eat at McDonald's?'
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.
A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why?
The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.
Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.
I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
