Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.
I won the 2011 Visa Championships, the 2012 Pacific Rims, and then the 2013 American Cup (the first and only senior elite competition of my elite career).
My old man worked for Pan American.
'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.
Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.
Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.
In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.
In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.
Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered.
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.
'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.
I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.
In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.
