America Quotes

• The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was.

  

  David Milch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Present

• All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • World
  • Work
  • Space

• 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.

  

  David Shields
  • America
  • Daily
  • Slavery

• The America I know is trusted, sometimes guardedly, but among those who aspire to improve the lives of their citizens, among those who feel vulnerable, and among those who want an equal voice in a partnership, we remain the partner of choice. The America I know leads, sometimes cautiously, but always ethically.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • America
  • Partner

• What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • American
  • America

• While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.

  

  James Mattis
  • America

• We went to America a few times and Brian Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George Harrison and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Times
  • Vietnam
  • Brian Epstein

• A Keyes speech on the moral erosion of America is one of those transcendent experiences where you just have to be there. It's hard to explain how he touches the soul of an audience, and saying that he's 'silver-tongued' (as everyone does) only tarnishes the picture by inadequacy.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Soul
  • Picture
  • Moral

• Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Science
  • Small

• There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • War
  • Poverty

• This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.

  

  Chuck Schumer
  • Done
  • Job
  • Bad

• The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Diversity
  • Messengers

• America's health depends on all businesses, not just healthcare companies, to do their part.

  

  John Quelch
  • America
  • Health
  • Health care

• 'That’s all very well - they’re not educated, poor creatures.' 'No, and a good thing too. Education has devitalised the white races. Look at America - goes in for an orgy of culture. Simply disgusting.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Education

• We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

  

  Charles Hamilton Houston
  • Children
  • America

• It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • World
  • History
  • Powerful

• America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • America
  • Bones
  • Rising

• Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

  

  Bob Dole
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wonder

• We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • America
  • Pretty

• Fox News and their Republican collaborators are the enemy of America, ...the enemy of anybody who wants anything good for this country.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Good
  • Country
  • Enemy

• Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

  

  Lee Greenwood
  • America

• There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Different
  • America

• I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Sensations

• 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?

  

  Keith Green
  • Church
  • Matter
  • Passionate

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