The president of the US is the leader of the free world, if by free world you mean the country with the largest prison system.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?

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

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

Sólo se sentía la tranquilidad sorda de las aguas, las cuales parecía que se despeñaban en el abismo.

America is not a place. America is an idea that died along with my grandfather. And I’m sorry to say that I shot them both.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.