The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

My two favorite movies are ‘Coming to America’ and ‘Boomerang’.

New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.

Man: Are you armed?Silence: We have been here since the wheel and the fire, we have no need of weaponsMan: Yeah( Fires gun) Welcome to america.

The shortcomings of America’s political leaders do not stop at our borders.

I think the greatest thing about America is the American dream.

I didn’t realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

European musicians didn’t learn popular music, whereas in America we did, … So you played in bands, you played in orchestras, you played everything. The high-art/low-art idea, that was a very European idea and not...

I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children’s loss. It was eloquent...

The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: ‘The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people...

Uninformed, America may succumb to bad ideas and leaders. In succumbing, we fail to fulfill our destiny. Well informed, America rises as far as the good ideas and leaders it proactively chooses. In so rising,...

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.

I’m innocent. I was raped! I hope you get raped! Scumbags of America!

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

In America everything is fantastical.

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as...

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It’s what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, ‘There, you sons of bitches, don’t lay a finger...

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Aldridge is the best center in America.

The Americans won’t win. They’re not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster...

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor’s appointment.

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk...

You don’t want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our ‘Truth,’ and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop...

I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being...

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because...

I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even...

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be...

what doesn’t kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

When you start speaking the “TRUTH” it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression.

Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation’s national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals – people good and bad...

USA was founded in 1776. Or so I was told. I wasn’t actually there, so I have to believe the history books—the same history books that are full of American propaganda lies.

Yes here’s to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn’t want to pay taxes…

Pakistanis can’t trust. They’ve seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they’re misguided by people in the name of Islam. They’re told: ‘Malala is not a Muslim, she’s not in purdah, she’s...

And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by...

ab Americo Inventore …quasi Americi terram sive AmericamFrom Amerigo the discoverer …as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.

We must change the culture of illegality that shrouds those who came to America for a better life.

Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the skies of Manhattan. Even as the ashes and ruin of this horrific act...

The U.S. is not really speaking with a unified voice to Latin America. I don’t think the administration has yet identified a definitive strategy.

Wonderful?” wrote J.O. Young in his diary. “To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one who has spent all but 16 days of the this war...

For me, Barack Obama’s election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a...

We’re the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor,...

The American political system is like fast food–mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things…and everybody wants some.

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.