I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really...

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

The big guys who ran things didn’t want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and working so you wouldn’t bump up against the truth–life could be fun. Yup, they...

When we came to America, though, we didn’t know what the right thing was. Here we lived with no map. We became invisible, the people who swam in between other people’s lives, bussing dishes, delivering...

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

I’m all groan up in America.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

Reagan grows up in 1920s Dixon, Illinois, and it’s the heartland of America. It’s a time when Americans are particularly drawn to this small town world because it’s beginning to pass.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will...

The only thing that we can do is invest in education in the United States of America, and we have not done it.

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you’re bound to understand and like everything...

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Dat’s what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: ‘America, the land of milk and honey.’ Bot they never tell you the milk’s gone sour and the honey’s stolen.

American dream,a spouse,a brace of children,cuddly pets,coffee-table books,rusted skeleton keys,plastic cauliflower bags,business cards of business-card printers,a mound of used airmail envelopes. Old house on moving day,all echoes and loneliness.

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’ I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle...

America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody’s in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve...

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical...

New Rule: America has every right ot bitch about gas prices suddenly shooting up. How could we have known? Oh, wait, there was that teensy, tiny thing about being warned constantly over the last forty...

I remember sitting in school and thinking, ‘I don’t know why I’m here, because I know I’m going to act and I know I’m going to America.’

America needs NATO in this situation. It will take pressure off America and the idea that America is perpetuating a war against Muslim nations, and that it’s always America on the front lines.

The balance of power is not being maintained in America today, … The Supreme Court is interpreting the Constitution in derogation of congressional authority.

It’s a numbers game. This isn’t about just one company. This is about a health care crisis in America. We’re doing what we can to try and make coverage affordable.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain’s stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has...

With the flat tax, we’re all on a level playing field, just as it should be in the United States of America

I would not trade America’s position in the world – our ledger, our debts and assets – for any country in the world. There isn’t a country in the world even close to America.

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today’s legislation and America’s...

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

America is not a place. America is an idea that died along with my grandfather. And I’m sorry to say that I shot them both.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of “speaking for” a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practised, and...

Prejudice in this country is like chapters in a book. Chapter One: Hating the Africans and Indians. Chapter Two: Don’t forget the Irish. Chapter Three: Polish jokes.”….. “Hispanics? Latinos? Whatever you call us? Maybe we’re...

I want to ask, does Pakistan have sovereignty at all? They are cooperating with America in the war against terrorism, but can they not distinguish between cooperation and slavery?

We defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us. The common principle, which is the establishment of the empire of man on earth, we never lift a finger to defend. We are frightened...

It will take time to restore chaos

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn’t happen.

Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he didn’t. Not in the way Nathan Hale had loved America. Or even in...

[If] a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.

I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same...

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it’s the greater wealth.

I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on ‘Jericho,’ that was the only time that I’ve ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories...

If this fossil is correctly identified, it’s very interesting to find it existed in South America at that period of the late Cretaceous some 90 million years ago,

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury,...