Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.
This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.
Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody. I put him above Einstein and everybody else.
The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about.
Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.
