America Quotes
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A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of the India that they had left, not realizing that the India that they had left has changed more profoundly than the America they came to.
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
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Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.
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We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.
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America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do more and more. The whole nation - Russian nation was like, 'Tell us what else we can do to please you. We want to be like you. We love you.' And then in 1999, bam. You bomb Yugoslavia. And that was the end of it.
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I don't think we missed America by that much. It was a huge-volume election that didn't turn overwhelmingly one way or another, which was what we said was going to happen. There were some nuances, but I don't think we missed that much.
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America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
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This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.
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'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
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A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.
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Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.
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France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
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People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
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Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.
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You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.
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I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.
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Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
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The originating sin of America is slavery, for which reparations should be paid and will never be paid; as a result, mini-reparations are paid daily, and the NBA remains, for me, reparations theater.
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Cuba, for example, is a vanguard outpost, an outpost which overlooks the extremely broad stretches of the economically distorted world of Latin America. Cuba's example is a beacon, a guiding light for all the peoples of America.
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Fox News and their Republican collaborators are the enemy of America, ...the enemy of anybody who wants anything good for this country.
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This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
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Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
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Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
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People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
