One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.
I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.
