America Quotes
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Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
Andy Dunn
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
Jesse Jackson
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We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.
Jimmy Gomez
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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.
Barack Obama
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May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
Marquis de Lafayette
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America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.
John Edwards
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I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
Paul Tsongas
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Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
Jenna Wortham
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It is no accident that our business, The University of Phoenix, is one of the top 50 community-minded companies in America. My father and I are strong believers in the concept of community.
Peter Sperling
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American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
Pico Iyer
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There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.
Chris Evans
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In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.
Oprah Winfrey
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One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.
Martin Rees
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I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.
Jason Ralph
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Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.
Emerson Fittipaldi
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Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.
Rachel Blanchard
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Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.
Barack Obama
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Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.
Mark McKinnon
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It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.
Lee Iacocca
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
Barbara Cartland
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The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.
D. James Kennedy
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I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
Usher
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Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.
Charles Lindbergh