Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd...

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century...

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market – the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they’d...

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

But in America, if you’re an atheist, you lose.

The best ones – Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It’s not a thing he’s selling here. It’s real. He knows it’s real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right?...

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe’s development.

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants...

Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own...

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word ‘impossible’ is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple;...

You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.

[Jim Padilla, president and Chief Operating Officer, said the Company’s focus on the turnaround in North America is an indication of leadership priorities.] Our people have made excellent progress in South America, stabilized Europe and...

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

I think there’s a lot of anesthesia being – that’s been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an...

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

the American dream.”The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged...

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

I feel I am one of the best three skaters in America.

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to...

I saw ‘Captain America’ in 3D. It’s cool. I liked the beginning. It’s a really good setup.

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship...

We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge leap without even a [congressional] hearing,

You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There’s been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. I’m more popular...

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is...

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)”How do you find America?””Turn left at Greenland.

We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet...

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to...

In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn’t turn to politics until he has failed at everything else.

America hadn’t really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World’s Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people’s military coming home in boxes...

The first ‘Star Wars’ movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything – it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a...

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

It was better than what I did at Skate America and a personal best for me,

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

In cities and towns all across America it turns out that people pay for their own lunches and their own dinners. People who make far less than we do.

It’s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

Amerikā! Te jau cilvēks ne mirklīti nedrīkstēja aizmirsties savās pārdomās. Te bija jātur acis pirkstos un jādomā tikai par ceļu un pedāļiem, citādi draudēja, ja ne tieši ātrs gals, tad nepatikšanas un izdošanas. Te nevarēja...

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

I love America and I hate it. I’m torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

I love America, but I chose America.

To [the government] it didn’t matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.