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I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.
The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.
We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.
I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.
I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
Look, America was a narrowly divided country in 2000;49-49 was what Michael Barone called it. It's a 49-49 nation.
In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Religious freedom is foundational for our country, and we must lead on religious freedom as an example in America.
When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.
We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.
What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.
I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
America is a nation that is founded on the principle of religious freedom. That is the reason this country exists.
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.
We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.
My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.
I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.
To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.