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.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

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

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

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

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Laws are silent in time of war.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don’t understand it. It’s like America has lost faith in rational thought.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

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.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

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.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

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

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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

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

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

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.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.