America Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.

America is another name for opportunity.

We do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do [in America].

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.

The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.