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The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

America is the greatest country in the world.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

America is the greatest country in the whole world.