All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary...

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we’d have long conversations.

I actually don’t think there is machismo in America, unless it’s the cowboy type – the silent, smoking brooder.

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of...

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America’s high-tech companies as their Internet police.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, “Merry Mas,” where Christ will be taken out of its context.

Some say we’re blue-collar, middle-class America and do we want to be high-end? Others say we are high-end and can still attract middle-class America.

The United States has subcontracted Brazil for security and Canada for economic development. But they’re all reporting to Washington. The final decisions are made there,

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

trashy, profane and obscene” poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham’s expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions...

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America – and in the world.

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.

He is baiting you into it. He came to America to die, and you are his last chance.

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

This is a sad day for America, the world community, and the people of Iraq,

Patrick had an outstanding season and is most worthy of this additional first team All-America recognition. He plays with great passion and has worked hard to become one of the finest linebackers in the country.

America’s relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

Americans are artisans in freedom.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that’s why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it’s a...

I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held...

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America

Most conservatives have been historically strong defense people, but have been reluctant to embrace the idea that America can dictate the form of government to other states and other peoples.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you’re at the top that long, you forget what it’s like in the valley. There are 5+ billion people out there...

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we...

I don’t want these. They’re mud and they’ve got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I’m used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light...

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She’d won the Olympics in 1976. She was America’s sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

Watch the walls come down, whether it’s in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the...

I hope I’m exactly what America is looking for, I don’t know, I’m just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That’s all I can do.

The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and...

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart beating through his suit coat. It seemed to be rushing. His hand, gentle...

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

The beauty of America is that taking into consideration of all of our issues, whether race, class or ethnicities, America is still a pretty good place to live. It’s up to us to make it...

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn’t just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time...