America is basically about freedom.

I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things - the judiciary, sports, economics and trade - we want Africanism to be involved,…

— Fela Kuti

We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when…

— William J. Clinton

I think the world is more perilous and America is basically undefended. For me the two touchstones after 9/11 for domestic security were our…

— Michael Scheuer

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

— Anonymous

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

— Adam Conover

America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or…

— Ernie Chambers

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

— Samuel P. Huntington

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

— Adam Yauch

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true…

— Evan Bayh

People from all over the world came to America and assimilated into a single culture rooted in the founding, which is rooted in individual…

— Rush Limbaugh

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,…

— Dick Armey

America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

— George H. W. Bush

In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring…

— Paul Rodgers

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's…

— Jack Nicholson