To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The… — Maurice Clarett Copy Share Image
Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I as a Judge of the Supreme Court of America should not be emotional", said Chief Justice Earl Warren, "but I must… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
One independent expert - actually, the economist who advised John McCain in 2008, so, you know, not somebody that has any predisposition… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
To borrow a phrase from my friend Erskine Bowles on the Fiscal Commission, we are the healthiest looking horse in the glue… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“America, I think, is about poor people playing music and poor people sharing food and poor people dancing, even when everything else… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
By reducing trade barriers, improving intellectual-property protections, and setting international rules of the road, TTIP has the potential to improve America and… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns...If we want America to stay… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
“America has not the option as to whether it will or it will not play a great part in the world,” Roosevelt… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image