America Quotes

• We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Afghanistan

• You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

  

  Mario Diaz-Balart
  • America
  • House
  • Leadership

• America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

  

  Martin Amis
  • America
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • America
  • Chocolate
  • Candid

• My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.'

  

  Anthony Pratt
  • America
  • Forever
  • Growth

• I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Children
  • Suffering

• I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • People
  • Career
  • Film

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

  

  Manning Marable
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Historical

• No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

  

  Kelly Miller
  • American
  • War
  • Feeling

• So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Business
  • America

• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Done
  • Cancer
  • Insurance

• I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

  

  Mario Puzo
  • Believe
  • America

• I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
  • America

• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • America
  • Taken

• Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • People
  • World
  • American

• If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

  

  Edward Grey
  • World
  • Future
  • Peace

• I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Nice
  • Politician
  • Accepted

• I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

  

  Jean Reno
  • Time
  • Long
  • Strong

• I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.

  

  James Meredith
  • America
  • House
  • Control

• We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Women
  • America
  • Democracy

• I want to see America set the example to the world both in our domestic and foreign relations of magnanimity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • America

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