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.

Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.

Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political – what you need is the will to do it.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

America’s health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well … all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don’t live in Paraguay!

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

I’m over-industrious, so I don’t feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up as it is of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms...

The outlaw here is America, not Iraq,

America – It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.

I want people to experience what it’s like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef – multicultural, multilingual.

Every time we have these photographs dribbled out or some expansion of that situation, it is not good for America, … And we need to conclude it. And getting all of these photographs out at...

The loss of confidence in the financial reporting of Corporate America could hurt both consumer and business spending, … The reduced availability and higher cost of credit, as well as the desire to strengthen the...

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is...

Boston and America is really resilient.

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It’s a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

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.