America Quotes

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America

When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves

The news media in general are liberals.

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

Try to imagine an America without rich people. Rich people contribute a lot to this country.

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

If we greatly expanded primary health care, lower the cost of prescription drugs, we take a giant step forward in lowering health care costs in America.

In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end.

Every person in America will know what Donald Trump said and what he is doing.

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all.

We must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America.

I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences does not rest with Providence.

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!