America Quotes

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

Jazz is America's classical music.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America.

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.

We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

Joe Calzaghe was using the excuse, no one knows who I am in America. Now everyone knows who I am in America.

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

I would like to see America some day.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.