Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.
Every country has the government it deserves.
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.