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 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.

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...

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...

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 passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety...

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their...

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

What sounds good?” That’s where we get into trouble focusing on what we want rather than what we need. Then we invent new ways to satisfy ourselves.

Central America is a very strong region. In general, Latin America is a very strong region for us. We certainly intend to keep growing in the region.

other people” who get in our way. We tell the tales around the campfire of men who came from nothing to run dotcom empires, of a million dollars made overnight, of an actress marrying a...

If Scotland and America go to war, I’m afraid I’ve already sworn in.

It’s set in three time zones: 16th-century Spain, present-day America and the distant future, deep space, … lovers in each time zone. It’s kind of a sci-fi love story. The Fountain refers to the search...

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers...

Ronald Reagan’s legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way...

America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted...

It’s not quite done. I’m hoping to finish the last of the songs while I’m down (in South America). I’m bringing my tape machines and all that down. If I can come back and finish...

What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and its promise of an enriched life so I knew we had a country...

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

America is hungry for people who believe in something. You may disagree with us but we believe in something.

I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night...

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

Bankruptcy has a negative connotation to many people, but it’s an important part of the streamlining of America. For companies that have gotten themselves down a dead-end alley, it’s a way to back up and...

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle,...

As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with...

Trucks, construction equipment and buses are seriously affected by the sharp downturn in North America, … The downturn could not be offset by strong performance elsewhere in the world.

Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn’t respond us, but drones came to our rescue.

I’m/ gonna spread out/ over America/ intrude/ my proud blackness/ all/ over the place.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

That Yank glean is long gone anyway; money, sex, power, it’s gone global – no one has a monopoly on it anymore. The towering skyscrapers of New York had fallen long before the second plane;...

So much of today’s film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place; they forget...

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined...

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

America has been very, very good to me.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America’s 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline...

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.