The glamour of it all! New York! America!

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

The first wealth is health.

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 have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

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

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

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

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

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

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

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.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

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.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

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.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

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

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

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

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

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

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.

Music is really driving my whole life.

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