It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.
But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.
The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns.
No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
