The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.

[I]n America, wrongs can be righted,warriors can wear skirts and blouses,and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

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

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn’t respond us, but drones came to our rescue.

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

The United States is falling away from the very things that had made it what it was. What it is becoming is something to be feared....

Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.