The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.
I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
