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.

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

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.

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

America experienced its first oil shock. Within days of the cutoff, oil prices rose from $2.90 to $11.65 a barrel; gasoline prices soared from 20 cents to $1.20 a gallon, an all-time high. Across America,...

I’m sure that problems that arose between America and Germany in the election campaign can be rapidly overcome. Tony Blair can play a role there but I think that Gerhard Schroeder wants the same thing,

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

The support here was awesome. A lot of people from Central and South America flew in. It’s fun.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people’s limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war...

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars – and beyond.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I’m trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail....

He wants you to sentence him to death. He came to America to die in jihad and you are his last chance. He clearly sees that as his last way to martyrdom.

I’ve always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she’d be ready to give up on me.

Today I announce that I will seek and I will win the presidency of the United States of America, … a dishonest decade of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to...

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for...

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.

Ifem, how is the weather in America?

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was...

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can’t side with. I think that’s...

America has killed innocent people and hasn’t apologized.

We are part of the fabric of America, from U.S. senators to your schoolteacher to your local banker.

The world wants to like America.

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There’s the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

And as if by magic – and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and that we, we now past Americans, were once the magical people of it,...

For the next two years I see a focus on North America and Denmark.

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs… When the government sees its people...

Six-Pack didn’t despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy’s boy, and she agreed with Ketchum’s assessment that Bush would...

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined...

America has its own agenda in dealing with different cases and Iraq has its own program, but the government is paying more attention to this issue and investigating it.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. “Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald’s. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France,...

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You’ve got to go through it.

I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen’s generosity was harder to...

[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less “African” than actual Africans that calling ourselves ‘African American’ is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born...

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

That’s what America’s all about, man, if it’s about anything. You can choose your own name.

It’s also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the… as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government – alone among the governments of the world – will not allow its own people to recover the energy...

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.