After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.
In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.
Envy is the central fact of American life.
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
American literature has always been immigrant.
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.
There are no second acts in American lives.
Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.
The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.
The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.
If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.
We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.
