America Quotes
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To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.
John Ashcroft
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Here in America, our use of time is not harmonious with humanity's better spirit.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.
John Podhoretz
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When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
Jason Wu
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Barzun
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Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.
Conan O'Brien
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America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.
Ashthon Jones
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There's not a person in the United States of America who doesn't love country or have some kind of tie to it.
Danny Gokey
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Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.
Letitia Baldrige
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'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people, and I started doing a few American films of various levels of quality.
David Thewlis
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Hedy Lamarr
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As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.
Leonard Boswell
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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
John Philip Sousa
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The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
Malcolm X
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I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
Jim McDermott
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In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
Kenny Marchant
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The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal.
Ajit Pai
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America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'
Cristina Saralegui
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We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.
Jewel Kilcher
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I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
Patricia Schroeder
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This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.
Mark Steyn
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Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.
Jim Cooper
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
Edmund Phelps