America Quotes

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

America, I am not ignoring you.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

In America, public opinion is the leader

The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

We have chemical weapons in America too, they're called meth and cocaine.

People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Did you ever notice that America is shaped like one big, giant toilet bowl?