We’ve broken everywhere except America and we’re dying to break the States. It’s like a drug – not that I’ve ever taken drugs!’

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of...

Your Majesty—Tugging my ear. Whenever.

If this were a simpler matter, I’d have eliminated everyone else by now. I know how I feel about you. Maybe it’s impulsive of me to think I could be so sure, but I’m certain...

exit” which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :”No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for...

Africa, South America, and parts of Asia are behind because the infrastructure hasn’t been built out, and the costs are very high for people to get connected [to the Internet].

By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

Rosa Parks changed the course of history, not only for African Americans, but for all of America. ‘ Her life was a testament to the power of one. ‘ For that she will forever be...

America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.

When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30...

I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don’t have to be let down. And yet again...

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery...

Suomesta ei saa koskaan tulla samanlaista kuin Amerikasta! Mä haluan, että ihmiset voi olla täällä aina aidosti vapaita ja sanoa ja puhua mitä huvittaa.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I can remember whendelusions of grandeur entailed wanting tobe a rock star, movie star,a millionaire; to make itas a writer—now it seems that it’sto want to earn adecent living

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can’t remember the feeling of living there anymore. It’s like it was in another life. That’s sad in a way. It is my country. It’s where...

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me...

As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men...

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.

Re-electing Senator Byrd will allow him to continue to preach his blame America first agenda.

America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.

Egypt’s problem is that you’ve got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We’ve got to...

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth...

Surely, though, I must have stolen into the future and landed in an H.G. Wells-style world – a horrific, fantastic society in which people’s faces contained only eyes, millions of healthy young adults and children...

It’s been my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they’re going. For them it’s the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop...

In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and...

What-Would-Jesus-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.

‘War on terror’ is a misnomer. It would be like calling America’s involvement in World War II a ‘war on kamikazism.’ Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Don’t worry, I can hander it!

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.