America Quotes

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

My administration will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the United States of America, believe me.

Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

Imagine in what the president [Donald trump] wants to do, the 400 wealthiest families in America will get a tax break of $7 million a year.

Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

Don't start drinking before the fifth song.

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.