As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.
I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.
I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
