I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.