The United States of America will NEVER be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the IRAQI people will live in FREEDOM.

I mean, people need to REMEMBER WITHOUT the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his POLITICAL CAREER and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in KANSAS City.

Barack Obama was not BORN into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these UNITED STATES of America. Barack Obama has lived the AMERICAN Dream. He has WALKED in our shoes.

It's better to have the taxpayer pay for the LOSSES than have the United STATES of America become an economic wasteland. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to PUT it BACK TOGETHER again.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm SURE my ancestors GO all the way back to AFRICA, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a BLACK man in America.

Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine WOULD be, as it relates to Israel if I were PRESIDENT. You mess with Israel, you are MESSING with the United States of AMERICA!

I THINK it's fair to say that DIPLOMACY today requires much more of that if you're the United States of AMERICA than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

My grandma ALWAYS had two gods: JESUS Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and NEITHER was ANYONE else I knew.

I REALLY truly worry that the DEBT is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're TALKING about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I THINK we ought to be cutting more.

But the - look, I THINK that this - the United States of AMERICA is still the most powerful economy in the WORLD. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in SPITE of the fractiousness of our politics.

Raising the DEBT ceiling is not additional spending. It is SIMPLY saying, you, the United States of America, can CONTINUE to borrow the money you need to pay the BILLS you have already rung up.

We're the Fascist STATES of AMERICA TODAY, not the United States of America, because the CORPORATIONS are in power.

I think they should let gays in the MILITARY because we are the United States of AMERICA. And if a gay PERSON wants to SERVE his or her COUNTRY, why should they not be allowed to?

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the FIRST Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I WANT you to KNOW we have very MUCH in common. For nothing in my LIFE ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I knew I was the second-best tennis PLAYER in the STATE of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my CHANCES in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.