Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world could be remade in the American image, that the previous bipolar world could be replaced by a unipolar one in which the U.S. was the dominant arbiter of global and regional affairs.
It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.
Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.
A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.
We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and tradition-wise.
I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities.
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.
