In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Norman Mailer

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Marilyn vos Savant

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Marilyn vos Savant

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
Muhammad Yunus

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Ken Kesey

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
Marilyn Manson

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Ralph Ellison

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
Jeffrey Sachs

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
Herman Melville

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
John Naisbitt

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
bell hooks

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.
Bob Dole

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.
Bob Dole

In America everything's about who's number one today.
Bruce Springsteen