Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.
I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.
Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.'
I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'
Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.
My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.
President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'
I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
American politics is always an open competition.
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
