The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.
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 has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?
America has always imported history.
Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.
I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.
America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.
In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.
Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.
