New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating.
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.
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 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.
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
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.
