Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.