I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an...

I have this theory, that this will be the only city that future archaeologists find, Las Vegas. The dry climate will preserve it all and teams of scientists in the year 5000 will carefully sweep...

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free — if we were, we’d allow people their freedom....

Every cuisine has its characteristic ‘flavor principle,’ Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or, in Samin’s Moroccan dish, cumin-coriander-cinnamon-ginger-onion-fruit. (And in America? Well, we do have Heinz...

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

He must love you very much,’ Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn’t look at him. ‘What makes you say that?’ Gavril sighed. ‘I’ve known Maxon since he was a child. He’s never stood...

We’ll when he lets his guard down he’s okay. Like when he just talks without checking his words or you catch him just looking at something like… He’s really looking for the beauty in it.

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I’ve had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden – where I met my wife of 55 years,...

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn’t really work, they just sounded like...

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America’s sweetheart.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

My two favorite movies are ‘Coming to America’ and ‘Boomerang’.

New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.

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.

The shortcomings of America’s political leaders do not stop at our borders.

I think the greatest thing about America is the American dream.

I didn’t realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

European musicians didn’t learn popular music, whereas in America we did, … So you played in bands, you played in orchestras, you played everything. The high-art/low-art idea, that was a very European idea and not...

I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children’s loss. It was eloquent...

The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: ‘The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people...

Uninformed, America may succumb to bad ideas and leaders. In succumbing, we fail to fulfill our destiny. Well informed, America rises as far as the good ideas and leaders it proactively chooses. In so rising,...

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

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.

I’m innocent. I was raped! I hope you get raped! Scumbags of America!

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

America is the world’s top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.

Too many in America lead with their emotions when it comes to the flag, becoming illogically protective.Hell, the British treat their national symbol, the Royal Family, way worse, and they’re people!

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they’re available all the time for everyone that wants them...

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in...

One of the most vulnerable situations facing America is our ports of entry. Whoever’s responsible for those ports of entry should be American.

The national nonprofit I founded, ‘KaBOOM!,’ is on a mission to save play for America’s children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can...

We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease.

When we made ‘Fireball XL5’, I’d never heard of NBC, and I didn’t even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I...

We continue to see the heartland of America, if you will, the Midwest, as the most attractive long-term for Canadian crude.

Who leads the world in consumption? America! Who has more lawyers per capita? America! Who has the highest incarceration rate? America! What is the greatest country on earth? America!

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds...

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain…There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that...

I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even...

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be...

what doesn’t kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.