For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
I'm just an American dream.
Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.
History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card.
I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.
The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.
