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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.

I am not an American; I am the American.

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.