America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

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.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

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.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

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

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

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

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

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.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

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

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

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

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.