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

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...

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 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.

I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything.

Watch as the American mother protects her young ones from dangerous influences.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God. For, as all...

The superman exists and he’s American.

Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America.

Go up along the eastern side of Lake Michigan, steer northeast when the land bends away at Point Betsie, and you come before long to Sleeping Bear Point–an incredible flat-topped sand dune rising five hundred...

White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who...

Other countries have been founded by ‘accidents of force.’ America is a creation of thought.

Thank God for immigrants. They’re the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are “evolving” past. I don’t know what they’re saying, but...

I’m a writer. In Latin America, they say I’m a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here,...

set a revolution that made America face up to its birth defects.

Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword.

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples – in particular the United States of America – fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

If you want to compete against the best, in America that means NASCAR. We look forward to February 2007, when the green flag waves to start the Daytona 500 and the starting lineup features the...

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for...

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don’t know if you’ll admit a toad could have memories. But I don’t know, either, if you’ll admit there...

America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d’espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

I don’t think we missed America by that much. It was a huge-volume election that didn’t turn overwhelmingly one way or another, which was what we said was going to happen. There were some nuances,...

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

In America, you watch TV and think that’s totally unreal, then you step outside and it’s just the same.

What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.

Everybody thinks the players who come from Latin America were shining shoes, … I lived good.

Every man has two counties–his own and America.

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted...

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men […] In the hush his...

Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you’ll always be a princess to me.

No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

Our people have made excellent progress in South America, stabilized Europe and positioned us for growth in Asia. The challenges in North America require us to give it the attention and resources it deserves. I...

You see, in America, it’s quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an...

The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of Muslims against America and against the West in general.

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate… I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I...

Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is a very strong option for expansion of business, attracting investment and promoting the transfer of technologies. And...

I guess she went to a different law school than the rest of the lawyers in America. People don’t just throw that term about.

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but partially expresses the fact. They are ignorant of the world about...

I’m not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It’s something that people don’t necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.