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• What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

  Topics in Belief, Religion

  Tags in Credo, Creed, American, Political

• President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.

  Peter Arnett

  Topics in Country

  Tags in American

• It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

  Brad Henry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paradox, American

• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Pete Stark

  Topics in America, Power

  Tags in American

• I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I’m a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

  Brad Carson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, State

• I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

  Pete Seeger

  Topics in Life

  Tags in American

• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  Iain Banks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stopped, Blade, American

• We think there’s a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.

  Freeman Thomas

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in American, Think

• And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination – of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

  Fredric Jameson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economic, Industries, American

• In most of the European countries – France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism – the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Fredric Jameson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, National, Forced

• Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism – in that sense, playing the game of US interests – by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

  Fredric Jameson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interests, American, Playing

• The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

  Fredric Jameson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Popular, American, Traditional

• There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

  Peabo Bryson

  Topics in History

  Tags in American

• We stand strong together – as Americans – many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

  Bob Taft

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Strong

• That’s why I’m very proud of being American. I’m proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

  Payne Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Proud

• My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, American, Possible

• The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

  Frederick Turner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Development, Advance

• Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

  Bob McDonnell

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in American

• My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

  Frederick Reines

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Music, American, Memories

• Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

  Bob Geldof

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Irish