America Quotes

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again.

Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America, beginning with our American inner cities. We're going to rebuild them, for once and for all.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.