You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life.
Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.
Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
In this country, when you finish second, no one knows your name.
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.
Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.
The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.