I know that I'm talented, and I know that I'm not in American Ballet Theater because I'm black - I'm here because I'm a gifted dancer.
The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.
Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.
The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.
The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The entire American concept of the 'family business' is put at risk by the death tax.
Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.
If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime.
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
I served as a Marine sniper for three years, and I believe the film 'American Sniper' depicted what we do perfectly.
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.
