I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president not who is the better American.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe to keep our streets safe.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity not as a Republican but as an American that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee not because of his color but with indifference to it.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

We shall listen not lecture learn not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy not on military might.

Like the average American that I hang out with and like my father before me I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience no matter what religion or color of their skin or situation in life.

The American way was for commerce personal relationships and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

Religion for better or for worse has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

You know I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl a Japanese girl an American girl a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'