In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

Everybody’s serious but me.

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That’s the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won’t ask too much of you, if you don’t ask too much of us.

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site...

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the ’50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it...

Shit, this woman’s scary. I’m glad my manager’s the short one with the wispy hair and the shaking hands. Milo knows how to get stuff done, but he’s about as terrifying as a goldfish.

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an “urban Thoreau”) set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of “work, produce, consume, work,...

It’s almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It’s their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it’s...

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

I hope to be the go-to person on international trade and industry. I think no one before me or after me will ever have so much knowledge about America’s ports.

What would Jesus do?” They don’t wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!

I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it.

The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let’s hope it doesn’t become the symbol of our common failure to protect the environment.

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short...

Well, in 1947… in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on...

I love Las Vegas because it’s the one city less classy than Los Angeles.

In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the...

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

I’m a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I’m on my way to North America. You will find me...

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes…

There are two things here, both are a hang-over from America.

At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we’ll all be paying...

Casio would be able to take its current mobile phone models to America, so I wouldn’t expect margins to drop off. And this could provide a significant boost to sales volumes.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can’t...

But it isn’t hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Somehow the hunting process has to...

This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with...

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

No more apologies! So we’re poor! All right, we’re poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn’t have to apologize for being poor. The question in America...

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions…

People want to see this America, this real America.

What’s the Christian-bashing all about? Simple – a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law

America’s strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

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...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men’s cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

Britain and America never thought Libya would accept it. It would look good from a public relations perspective but there was no hope in hell that Libya would accept it.

Oh, he shouldn’t be surprised, he’s a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History...

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It’s where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don’t feel...

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.