Clearly it’s not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

On coming to America I had the same hopes as have most European immigrants and the same disillusionment, though the latter affected me more keenly and more deeply. The immigrant without money and without connections...

I don’t believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

Conspiracy theorists like to claim NASA’s moon landing was faked. Well of course it was! But the biggest conspiracy of all is the Columbus landed in the new world in the late 15th century. There...

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear – from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence – that America is losing its allure in much of...

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it’s not already gone.

To evoke another great phrase of the American revolutionary heritage — widely though inconclusively attributed to Thomas Jefferson — the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Such a phrase is merely trite, however, unless we...

America’s always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That’s one of the things we’re probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn’t belong to either party since George Washington.

The great middle of America is underrepresented in Congress, … The leadership will insist that a compromise be established. But what that final product is, I have no idea.

I want to congratulate librarians,…who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of...

If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

Because even though you’re dating five other women, I think I’m cheating on you.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.

We’re selling to thousands of customers a week all over Europe and North America.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of...

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn’t matter what party you’re in. When you call your children and you say ‘How are you?’ – and what you are really asking is, ‘Do...

I want to be America’s Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.

I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don’t believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

One of the homeowners was showing us around the 9th Ward and he made a comment that America has forgotten them.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Double, no triple, our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.

We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America’s kids have the...

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the...

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

America has invested blood and treasure here, and we stand for certain values, and one of them is equality for men and women. I believe the new constitution will embrace equality for men and women...

After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue...

America, it has been observed, is not really a melting pot. It is actually a huge potluck dinner, in which platters of roasted chicken beckon beside casseroles of pasta, mounds of tortillas, stew pots of...

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are...

America does not have the competence to guide a global movement against terrorism, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will not participate in any move which is headed by the United States.

somehow, somewhere” or Alice’s backyard, a world that runs parallel to the real one, whose occupants need no passport or documentation. The only requirements for entry are an open mind, a restless desire to know...

I’m worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to...

We’re a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it’s misdirected.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That’s like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we’re called ‘Jews’? Because we come from Judea.

Jennifer Johnson: Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?Sharon: Diversity and opportunity.Moderator: Lewis?Lewis: Freedom and freedom… so let’s keep it that way.Moderator: Will?Will McAvoy: The New York Jets.Moderator: No, I’m...

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they...

I didn’t flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

We have to look at any and all sources of bringing teachers in. Teach For America has had a lot of success not only in retaining people, but also for being able to turn the...

It’s a landmark case, and it changed the face of sexual harassment laws in corporate America,

Having been in America as recently as November, there will be some people clearly who support the peace process, who support Sinn Fein, who support the Irish cause, who will not agree with me going...