In 1803, President Jefferson oversaw the purchase of this land from the French for $15 million. It doesn’t sound like much for an area three times the size of France itself but given that they’d...

America is a circus, and the politicians are the clowns.

If you’re black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat – I mean, you can’t drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit – a guy needs to be smarter and...

I like to go to America. That’s where I go for most of my holidays.

Many of America’s historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn’t have many other options.

This is a wake up call to America to pay attention while driving.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green...

God is forgotten, the mighty dollar has taken his place and the mechanic cannot ease the troubled soul. The road is closed. Under circumstances such as these America only increases speed. America will not stop...

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

We have a corporate structure that’s leaned out — inventories are tight as a drum, corporate America is very productive, and they’ve taken a lot of costs out, … So when the economy comes back,...

Las Vegas is one of the top destination getaways in North America and a great value compared with the alternatives such as Disney World, New York City and San Francisco.

I as a Judge of the Supreme Court of America should not be emotional”, said Chief Justice Earl Warren, “but I must confess that though I have travelled all over the globe but never was...

America is a great country. I’ve been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There’s just too much air-conditioning.

It’s a privilege to work as an anchor for Univision, but more important, I am amazed by how Latinos are transforming America.

I don’t consider ‘American Rose’ to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy’s tumultuous life – it’s ‘Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.’

I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country....

It’s hard to get a hug wrong.

Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD. We’re the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended...

I’m an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant...

I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don’t believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card – and in America...

We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.

When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

America has no vital interest in whose flag flies over Kosovo’s capital, and no right to attack and kill Serb soldiers fighting on their own soil to preserve the territorial integrity of their own country,...

America-bashing is addictive, born of power envy and nurtured by power lust among the weak, the cowardly and craven.

The group’s visit has verified Iraq’s credibility and exposed the allegations of America and Britain and their elements in the U.N. Special Commission [in charge of dismantling Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction],

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there’s a perception that that is okay.

The scariest stunt I’ve ever done was on ‘Captain America.’ We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill...

MasterCard should lighten up, they are taking their name ‘Master’ too seriously, … This is America.

Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of ‘today’. They are, generally...

I’ve been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, ‘it would be a good idea,’ to quote Gandhi.

Reagan is indisputably a part of America, and he may become a part of American history.

…am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people…

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo,...

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can’t be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on...

It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the harbor, with something written on it about “Give me your hungry…your oppressed…give me...

We love debt in America more so than any other country.

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

The United States is falling away from the very things that had made it what it was. What it is becoming is something to be feared….

…And although thus short, we shorten many ways,Living so little while we are alive;In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delightSo unawares comes on perpetual night,And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight.

While the president’s focus is on defending America it seems New York’s junior senator remains dedicated to her political aspirations. For someone that claims to be solely concerned with serving her constituents, Sen. Clinton spends...

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can’t have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

But they sense … that with just a change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, … They know we can do better. And they...

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?Toby: God bless America.

Russia is growing so fast that it’s quite hard to estimate its total potential. South America is a region where the its model continues to work very well,

(Local) palliative care is recognized throughout North America as a model to follow. We’re all going to die, so let’s die with some dignity.

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers’ ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host...