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.

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

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

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

Rosa Parks changed the course of history, not only for African Americans, but for all of America. ‘ Her life was a testament to the power of one. ‘ For that she will forever be...

America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.

When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30...

I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don’t have to be let down. And yet again...

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery...

Suomesta ei saa koskaan tulla samanlaista kuin Amerikasta! Mä haluan, että ihmiset voi olla täällä aina aidosti vapaita ja sanoa ja puhua mitä huvittaa.

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

I can remember whendelusions of grandeur entailed wanting tobe a rock star, movie star,a millionaire; to make itas a writer—now it seems that it’sto want to earn adecent living

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can’t remember the feeling of living there anymore. It’s like it was in another life. That’s sad in a way. It is my country. It’s where...

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to...

I was pretty excited [to be out there for the final inning]. But my experience in America helped me remain calm on the mound.

If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we’re a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don’t...

Halak made a remarkable impression in his first season in North America. He has an excellent work ethic and could become an excellent goaltender in the years to come.

Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club...

This is the opposite of the free market.

She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck.

America’s can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country’s ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

The breakdown of mummies and daddies was an important part of lesbian relationships in the Bagatelle…For some of us, however, role-playing reflected all the depreciating attitudes toward women which we loathed in straight society. It...

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

What-Would-Jesus-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.

‘War on terror’ is a misnomer. It would be like calling America’s involvement in World War II a ‘war on kamikazism.’ Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Don’t worry, I can hander it!

In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions – and both parties can do it – it’s part of the dumbing down of America that’s really highly problematic.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Osama, baah!” Bashir roared.”Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never...

The changes seem to reflect Bill Ford’s impatience with the turnaround in North America,

Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we’ll have fun. It won’t last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight.

The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country...

The markets are much more interested in America’s long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours...

It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what’s great about America, what we’ve done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the...

Africa occupied a relatively blank space in the minds of most Americans, and when they stopped to think about it, aided by old and deeply ingrained habits of press coverage, all they could imagine was...

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I...

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.

You’re in America now,” I said. “Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people...

Unfortunately we – and I’m speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that’s where I come from – we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in...

They don’t live here. They live in Heaven.’Where’s that?’I don’t know,’ I said. ‘Enos says it’s right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it’s...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn’t enough. The absence of noise isn’t the presence of justice – and we must demand justice...

‘Death of a Salesman’ is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

I turn on the TV and watch Bewitched. Is life in America really the way it’s portrayed on these television shows? Are people so superficial? Do men really walk around in their suits at home?...

I don’t regret doing ‘The Living Daylights’. If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.