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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?
In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.
Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.
America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.
One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
America has the greatest people on earth in our military, but they don't have the right equipment and their equipment is old.
[The courts and the media elite] are abolishing America, they are deconstructing our country ... they have dethroned our God.
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.
You know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can't do in a lot of other countries.
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.
America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.
I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.
We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
The people of America are tired of voting based on what candidates have told them they're gonna do, and nothing ever changes.
No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.
Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.
Canada is great! I love Canada. A lot of great things in Canada. I would do anything for love. But I want to live in America.
People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
If you give me the chance and give me your vote I will protect America from the wars that are being brought to our door step.
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.
North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.