For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life.
Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
I've published a couple of short novels in France that I didn't want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work.
I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
American failures in Vietnam and Iraq suggest that it's not really possible to create and sustain a proxy government in a country far from our own borders.
Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism.
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.
Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.
Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.
I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.
American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
When people put labels on us, it doesn't always enclose everything that we are. So even though I'm proud to be Somali, I'm proud to be American, at the end of the day, I'm still Halima, and I take things from both sides and combine them, and I make my own little category. I'm me!
Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.
I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, of course, I believe that American women are the most fortunate people who ever lived on the face of the earth, can do anything they make up their minds to do.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.
Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
