America Quotes

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

What I don't understand is what America really wants.

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.

I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

America was built on her citizens.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

Religious freedom is foundational for our country, and we must lead on religious freedom as an example in America.

President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

[Democrats] have lost the capacity to speak to the vast middle of America, an America that is, in large part, white, very religious and not highly educated.

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.

You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now.

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

I believe we must choose the path to faith, freedom and individual liberty. It starts with us, here today, now, Working together, with God's favor, we can save the America that we love.

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.