The lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in ‘Toward a New Cold War’ are invaluable. The United States, like any other nations, can and does err, and often in a big way. But Chomsky cannot support at all his implicit diagnosis that America is ‘bad.’
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‘Democracy in America’ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.
I don’t have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that’s the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that’s at that crossroads still.
We don’t have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else’s children from around the world. We simply don’t have the financial resources to do that.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
It’s weird, because everywhere I go, people yell, ‘Grasshopper!’ or ‘Bill!’ but down there in Mexico or Colombia or anywhere in South America or most of Europe, people will yell, ‘Serpent’s Egg!’ And I’ll go, ‘Wow, man, these people are really hip.’
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America’s children as Hillary Clinton.
America’s political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
When it comes to idiots, America’s got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
It’s odd, that’s why I don’t like telling people I played field hockey. It’s real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, ‘Oh, you girl!’
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Voting is crucial, and I don’t give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That’s not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can’t have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream.
I lost my accent pretty quickly, so everyone assumes I was born and raised in America. But I’m very much still in touch with my Filipino roots. That will never go away.
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.
Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
America has always imported history.
America has been very, very good to me.
There is one candidate in this election who will protect that dream. One leader who will fight hard to keep the promise of America for the next generation. And that’s why we must stand up and make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they’re doing in Yugoslavia.
We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.
In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body – it is heritage.
When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
As I’ve said repeatedly, Joe Biden in the White House is a threat to America’s safety and security.
Look at music for what it’s worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it’s all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.
I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.
My book is basically a love letter to America.
It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
I’m a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I’m on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That’s what freedom of expression is all about.
I was getting frustrated with America. It’s interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn’t get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way – you have to understand the culture.
Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media’s all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.
We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
