I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.
I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.
These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
Most Americans do not support amnesty, especially without securing the borders.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.
Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.
And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.
Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.
My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there is a Democrat in the White House, and they are party loyalists and hacks before they are public servants.
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
