All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you're a terrorist; if you're an American, you might be a militarist. Those kind of prisms that we see each other through are really stultifying, and they don't often show the complexity and the incredible warmth and encompassing of the world.
I support American energy production, and it will be produced by companies - Exxon, BP, Shell - and continue to support American energy.
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.'
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.
It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.
A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.
