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We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

American Idol has taken over my whole life.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.

I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.