Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

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.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them respect them and pay them well.

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.

America wants its respect.

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

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

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.

Is woman a religion? Well perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.