America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

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.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

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

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

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

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.

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.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

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 is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

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

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

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.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

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

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

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.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

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.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

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

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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

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.

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

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 me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

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

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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

I think America has always been polarized.

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.

Because of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.