All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
I'm honored that so many Floridians are supporting my efforts to rekindle the American Dream.
'Staunch conservatives' and 'free marketeers' are fairly typical Republicans, while the 'American preservationists' are far less reliably a part of a GOP coalition.
Congress cannot be allowed to impose burdens on the American people while relieving its own members of those burdens.
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.
I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.
Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.
No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton.
Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.
What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism.
Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.
The post-assassination Lincoln took on a greatly amplified importance to much of the American public, probably the president most deeply reviled in his lifetime and mostly highly regarded after his death.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.
I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.
I don't think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers. But I think that since 1982, worldwide, I have probably seen less than 3,000 American dollars in royalties.
