Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.
This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.
The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.