America Quotes
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I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.
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...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.
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I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.
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America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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By the time I auditioned for 'Aliens in America,' the July 7 bombing had happened in London. So I'd had those experiences where I would get onto the Tube, and people would get off. So there was a lot about Raja that I understood.
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Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
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When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.
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The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.
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The last thing my girlfriend would want to do is spend six months going around America, on a bus. With an idiot.
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The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.
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In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And in France it's more like you don't have to show you have success.
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I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.
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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.
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Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders.
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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
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And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage because it's lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It's time for the minimum wage to go up.
