Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it.
Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
The State Department said no American is proud of CIA interrogations. OK, so we're not as good as the Syrians at it, but we're not that bad.
11% of Americans believe HTML is a sexually transmitted disease. In reality, HTML is caused by bacteria living in the lower bowel.
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.
With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
President Lyndon B. Johnson: There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
