America Quotes

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.

When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.

This is America. You're allowed to have your views.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

I think that's what we really need in America, for people to hear each other. And I think philosophy could do a little bit better on that.

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

What is the English for 'Refreshing towelette'?

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.

If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.

If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That is a reality that we're still vulnerable to.

In the case of Michael Moore, having a deep, I'd even say passionate, understanding of other types of people in America who might be progressive thinkers without even realizing it.

The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

Every US President has to have a war.

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

I love America, but I don't like it.

I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.