We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'
The American presidency combines elements of the efficient and the dignified. The president presides over governance - not making legislation but proposing it, cajoling the co-equal federal legislature and then signing and executing the laws.
And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.
We The People' is public domain, any American can use that.
The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.
Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.
I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.
The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.
I think our team kind of strives on weirdness sometimes. We have that 'rah-rah, rally' sort of American mentality that we can all kind of get around.
I'm not a dispensationalist - I don't believe in the Rapture. I think it's an unbiblical doctrine, and in North American Christianity, at least, it is the teaching that is the root of much of our subculturalism.
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.
Do I think that the ACA is going to force rationing upon the American people? Yes.
'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
I'm a huge fan of stuff like 'Planet Earth' and the American sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'
Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.
