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Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear.

I've traveled the world, and I've seen how people marvel at the United States of America, at our democracy, at our ambition to build what so few countries have - a nation defined not by race or tribe or religion or place of birth but by an idea, that everyone is created equal.

The American people do not want to waste billions of dollars on a wall that won't stop illegal immigration but will make America look fearful and foolish.

If President Obama or any president ever attempts gun confiscation in America, there should be and will be a second civil war.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.

Progressives really do see America as guilty of crimes against humanity, and to them, our 'greatness' must be abandoned to atone for those crimes.

An America disarmed is an America in subjugation.

As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry.

Our economic future and our energy future are one in the same, and it's a future America can't shrink from. We must shape it, just as we've always done. We have to protect our planet from the threat of climate change and ensure that workers have the skills to compete for good middle-class jobs.

Here's the truth: Keystone XL won't make America energy-independent. It will threaten our land and livelihoods to pump Canadian tar sands' heavy crude through America and out to foreign countries, like China.

I'm willing to do just about anything to try and contribute to getting us back on a growth path that is just and good for America.

America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.

I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.

'America' is synonymous with opportunity.

Our message in rural America is just as powerful as it is in urban America. But because we haven't been a physical presence there in any sustained way, we have a lot of voters there who no longer believe that the Democratic Party is working for them.

We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and music is that vehicle to summon our better angels. Music is that vehicle and always has been a vehicle to challenge us to build a better America.

Donald Trump's vision of America, his nativist vision of America, his fear mongering - that's what we have to fight.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.

We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.