I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.
I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing.
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.
The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
