America Quotes
This won't stop her from getting elected...Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.
We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.
Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.
America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.
After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.
America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.
Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.
I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes...
In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.
Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America.
America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful."Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.
Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.
It’s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.
In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.
Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.
I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.
He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen.
It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.
There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.
If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!
The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.
She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.
Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.
Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.