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.

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your...

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I’ve gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.

If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

Everybody’s serious but me.

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That’s the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won’t ask too much of you, if you don’t ask too much of us.

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site...

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the ’50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it...

Shit, this woman’s scary. I’m glad my manager’s the short one with the wispy hair and the shaking hands. Milo knows how to get stuff done, but he’s about as terrifying as a goldfish.

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an “urban Thoreau”) set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of “work, produce, consume, work,...

It’s almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It’s their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it’s...