America Quotes

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

The horror that is America is disgusting.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

I wouldn't say Donald Trump is a champion for white America, I think he shares a lot of the issues and values of white America.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.