My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.