America Quotes

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

I do care about the direction of America.

Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!

America was built on the can-do spirit and will continue to thrive on the can-do spirit.

I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.

I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill - not because we're perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.

When I'm looking for a leader who's going to fight ISIS and keep America secure, I don't want some meek and mild leader or somebody who's going to turn the other cheek.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.

The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly a lack of leadership.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.