America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere, but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Americans adore me, and will go on adoring me, until I say something nice about them.

In known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

America is just downright mean.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that maybe our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Sometimes reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad you're actually helping to make America stronger.

America's a very traumatized society.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen, with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

For other nations utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered, for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.

America wants its respect.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going, but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here in the United States of America.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all and yet we don't take credit for it.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

America is another name for opportunity.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting and it is sure to be large.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin, are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

American Atheists: "What message would you like to send to your Atheist fans?" Douglas Adams: "Hello! How are you?"

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living, but it comes at enormous cost.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Perhaps after all America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest, but also the best interests of the world.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families, for our joy, our support in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

All the perplexities confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that One - most new jobs are created by small businesses; Two - most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

Great tragedy has come to us and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

Some day following the example of the United States of America there will be a United States of Europe.

In the United States I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are, and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them; they are so friendly, how can they be so suspicious; they are so suspicious, how can they be so friendly; but they just are.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead they overlap and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting, and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

In America the President reigns for four years and Journalism governs forever and ever.

As long as I live I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled, time and time again. Either make it separate but equal, or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

We should be too big to take offense, and too noble to give it.

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America he said had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President America has freed other nations from dictators.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Fourth to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish, as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative risk-taking God- loving family-oriented American people.

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.