Pastoral Resources

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

American Idol has taken over my whole life.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.