America Quotes

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

In America you make your plans and then they happen.

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

You cannot compare America and Russia.

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

There's not much radio in the UK, really. In America, you're in a car, factory, wherever, and you turn the dial on the radio, and can hear about a million stations. Hardly any in England.

We have a Marlboro Man Theory of leadership and change, especially in America, but in fact anything great that's accomplished is accomplished by many hands.

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

I'm very progressive in a lot of ways, but I'm a very proud American. It sounds so corny to say, but I am and have always been very... I'm just so proud. I don't ever not want to live in America.

Canada is great! I love Canada. A lot of great things in Canada. I would do anything for love. But I want to live in America.

I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.

Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

Im going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I havent seen. Ive spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

A lot of people are suffering in America.

The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.

South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.