George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our nation.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like";

America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people