Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
No matter how it started, I grew up with a great American love story. Two parents who didn’t fight, enjoyed having parties and being together, and it was a great way to grow up.
In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there’s this one Thai restaurant, and it’s right next to the ‘Great American Hall’. I’m there all the time whenever I’m in town; that’s my spot.
It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write ‘the Great American Novel,’ that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.
That seems to me the great American danger we’re all in, that we’ll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we’ll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don’t think the great American tweet has been written yet. We’d know.
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
I think it’s really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
The passing of my friend and a great American hero, Dan Inouye, is a major loss for the country and Hawaii. But the people of Hawaii are strong and we will persevere.
I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream – the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?
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