People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.
My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.
I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I'm an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake.
