Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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.

I’m not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it’s really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.