I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill - not because we're perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.
You either choose to view America as the shining city on the hill that inspires the best in all mankind, or you don't.
I choose to fight for the future, to seize the high ground and retake the Shining City on a Hill.
The U.S. is supposed to be a beacon of hope to the world - the shining city on a hill where freedom is available to all and individual liberties are protected.
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.
With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.
It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.
A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.
If we're going to kill our own people without even charging them with a crime, well, then we should just say we live in a different country, and stop telling the world that we're the sort of great, shining city on the hill.