Just after World War II this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.
The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.
Saturdays and Sundays America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that and it's a sad sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.
You had to be into sport and sad to say I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad and yet potentially joyous state of America.
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in for example the International Space Station we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization NASA.
I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
Marks of Identity is among other things the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot he will never flatter his country in any respect.
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong have respect for my people my family my nation and mankind.
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
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.
More than anything I think as our country matures we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
The country that owns green that dominates that industry is going to have the most energy security national security economic security competitive companies healthy population and most of all global respect.