America Quotes

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Jeep is America's only real sports car.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.