Popularity: 2
Vote:   | After I sang, this old soldier walked up to me with his wife, took off his Purple Heart and pinned it on me. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Already we are struggling to keep a handle on morality and on our vision for this country. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | And as a Christian I find it extremely offensive that our heritage of believing that we answer to a higher authority is being challenged. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | And each year since 2001, at the New York Stock Exchange, we light the tree and honor the families of the people lost in the terrorist attack. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | As a senior artist I find touring a bit of a struggle, but I've been pleased that we've had success. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | As an American citizen I wanted to step up and say something that had value. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | At this point in my career and my life, I will tend to spend more time with my family than ever before. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | For five years we had a theater in Sevierville, but we closed it in 2000. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Having this song with God in it appeal to so many Americans helps me think that God is still protecting America. I certainly hope so. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I am on tour again because I have a new album. It is called Stronger Than Time, and it is my 24th album. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I believe I emerged there because God had something for me to do. I still think He has things for me to do. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I kind of make up the show as I go along because I add new songs. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | I know that closing it was God-ordained, because if we had not, I would not have been available to be of any use to the nation after the terrorist attack on 9/11. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I persisted at my career, which was singing, entertaining and being a musician in one of the hardest places in the United States: Las Vegas. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I take it very seriously, as a father, playing a responsible role. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | I talk about patriotism and family and God and country. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I think it's a lesson we all collectively learned as a nation on 9-11. The ground shook, but when the dust cleared, we stood strong - prouder than ever to be Americans. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I think right now we all have to redefine ourselves as Americans. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I try not to repeat the same thing that we've done before. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I was raised by my grandparents; my parents were divorced when I was a year old. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'm pretty much an open book. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I've loved the ride - the ups and even the downs - and it's only thanks to God and a lot of good people around me that I've stayed pretty steady no matter how hard the ground shook. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | It just says that this nation is protected by God. I don't want that taken away. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | It makes me believe God wants this song as America's anthem right now and that He has anointed me to write it and sing it. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | It's always a spiritual experience. It is not just American; it is not just patriotism. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Looking back now, there is nothing that has ever reached into the depths of my soul like knowing that I have disappointed God, not just myself. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The church is a solid community; we all support each other. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The thing I like people to know is that whatever I say I stand for, that's what they're going to get. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | There were things that I did not fall into, such as drugs. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | USA is still as current and relative today as it was all those years ago. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We all work for a living and try to do good and try to take care of our neighbors. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We have Christian roots in this country. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | We try to include as many of the hits as we can in the time allotted, then give a few of what I'm working on. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We try to make it as visual as possible, talk to people, tell jokes ... keeping the audience involved. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | When I wrote it, I didn't think of it as a great song, but I knew it was an honest song. It was what I felt in my heart. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth. |