America Quotes

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

You should ask the president what he thinks about America.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

America is not the only one who should decide about the policies toward Iran.

George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it.

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.