In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
The American way is to not need help, but to help.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.
When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.
