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 did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

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 fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man that fought for this land. The purity of white...

It’s halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half.It’s halftime in America, too. People are out of work and they’re hurting. And they’re all wondering what they’re going to do to make a comeback. And we’re all scared, because this isn’t a...

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

It is clear the solution to America ‘s energy challenges will need to come from advances in fuels and vehicle technology. The fact is, without the whole-hearted involvement of the oil industry, we cannot move forward far enough and fast enough. We obviously need key partners like the oil industry to invest in developing and...

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?

Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!” And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the...

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

Man: Are you armed?Silence: We have been here since the wheel and the fire, we have no need of weaponsMan: Yeah( Fires gun) Welcome to america.

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine...

American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.

What manner of men had lived in those days…who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they been so anxious to believe that the government could solve problems for them which had been pridefully solved, many times over, by their fathers? Had their characters become so weak and...

I came to America on a tennis scholarship. My roommates in college were on the track team, so I’ve been running since 1989. I found that playing tennis since I was a kid has really helped with my running.

There’s towns just like ours in America. I think what we say is quite universal.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

The medium of response in America is fame; that’s how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.

As an American, I’d like to apologize-for everything.

In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities – real A-list Hollywood stars in America – the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.

You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries

…being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up as it is of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages, and more different in their modes of worship, it would appear that the...

What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution...

The FBI. is a massive culture. It’s been a culture that served America well, and it’s been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul’s call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we’re elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

Both companies had an exceptionally strong performance out of North America.

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America’s foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.

Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink in the mid-nineteenth century. Coffee’s popularity grew after the duty on imports was abolished in 1832, making it more affordable. The duty was briefly reintroduced during the Civil War but was abolished again...

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn’t do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends. No, they felt igno

He’s the last guy who should be lecturing John Kerry about how to defend America and keep the faith with those who wear the uniform,

Bill has exhibited strong leadership over teams in North America, Europe and Asia and has contributed to the Avnet Technology Solutions team’s success throughout his tenure.

I know America is the country that loved me most.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa &...

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else’s nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in...

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)”How do you find America?””Turn left at Greenland.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of...