In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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.

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

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

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.

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.

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

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.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

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

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Touring is hard on the body.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

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

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.

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.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

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

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.

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

London is a roost for every bird.

Paris is always a good idea.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Man, I really like Vegas.

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.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

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.

No place is better than Akron.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

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.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

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

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.

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

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.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.