There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
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 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.
