We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of the search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

I pledge you-I pledge myself-to a new deal for the American people.

...a national anthem ... sprinkled with question marks.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

As an American, I'd like to apologize - for everything.

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.