It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.
I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
