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.
- George_W Bush


America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
- George_W Bush


America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln


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


Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
- George_W Bush


Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
- Barack Obama
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
- Mark Twain


As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
- Barack Obama
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
- Thomas Jefferson


Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
- Thomas Jefferson


Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
- John McCain


I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
- Thomas Jefferson


I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
- George_W Bush


I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.
- Barack Obama
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I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
- Barack Obama
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I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
- George_W Bush


If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
- Barack Obama
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson


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


In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
- Barack Obama
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Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
- Anthony Bourdain


It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- Mark Twain


Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
- Ronald Reagan


My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln


My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
- Ronald Reagan


No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
- Anthony Bourdain


Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson


President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.
- Colin Powell


Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
- George_W Bush


The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- George Washington


The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
- George Washington


The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- George Washington


The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
- Joe Biden


The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.
- George Washington


The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
- Colin Powell


The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
- Robin Williams


The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
- Colin Powell


The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
- Colin Powell


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.
- Barack Obama
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This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.
- Sarah Palin


Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
- Ronald Reagan


We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
- Mark Twain


We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.
- Sarah Palin


We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson


We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
- Barack Obama
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi


What I was clearly talking about is that I am proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process. I mean, everyone has said what I said, in that we haven't seen these record numbers of turnouts, people who are paying attention, going to rallies, watching debates.
- Michelle Obama


When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
- Barack Obama
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