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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.