#america

"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting."

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

"People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life."

"This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.”“Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts."

"It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate."

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you."

"Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword."

"I want to go to all the topless bars in America and try to sell every single one of them a roof."

"I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I’d love nothing more than to drink it."

"He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that."

"Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it."

"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."

"4 in 5 Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, which begs the question: Are 1 in 5 Americans retarded?"

"Look at him,” she said, shaking her head. “Travis Maddox: Mr. Mom."

"I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream."

"Between Portland and Seattle is a mint factory, and they made sweets like we made sweet love, and America needs more manufacturers like us."

"Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."

"I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter."