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.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

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.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

Why, I’d horse-whip you if I had a horse.

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

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

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.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

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

There’s no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

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

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.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

America is just downright mean.

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 another name for opportunity.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

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.

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.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

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

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

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.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

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

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

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!

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

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.

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.

War is the province of danger.

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

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

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.