America Quotes

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

America is capitalism on steroids.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America.

America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.

We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

It will take time to restore chaos

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

Everybody in America is angry about something.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.

The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.

What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.