America Quotes

Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

I think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.

It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.

We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.

In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

Whoever supports the farmer is the guy for America.

As Latinos, we are so aware of what people go through in order to come to America. It's very interesting to do research on something that's been culturally a part of your existence.