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

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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.

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.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

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.

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

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

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

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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.

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.

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

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

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

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

We’re news junkies in my house.

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.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.