America Quotes
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While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.
James Mattis
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Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.
David Muir
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I'm the world's greatest fan of your President Ronald Reagan, as you know. I think he's done terrific things and I think that in his recent speech, the keynote that he struck, that America is a confident leader of the free world, is the right one and I'm absolutely delighted at the way in which confidence had returned to the United States.
Margaret Thatcher
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I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
Jonathan Kozol
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One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.
John Lanchester
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Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
Joe Biden
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I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
Newt Gingrich
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America has been another name for opportunity.
Frederick Jackson Turner
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Like many of my friends and associates, I am a life-long Democrat. We have a rock-solid commitment to supporting the political party that we so strongly believe offers the most promising vision of America: one that recognizes the proper role of government, the importance of compassion, and the value of diversity.
Alan Patricof
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The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will there be a desperate attempt to sustain the unsustainable by authoritarian measures? Will the institutions of order and justice fail in the process?
James Howard Kunstler
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The result may not be perfect. But our forefathers wanted us to compromise to get things done for America.
Gene Green
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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.
Bruce Pittman
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For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward.
Charles Boustany
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
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We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of... Hawaii... to the beautiful sandy beaches of... Hawaii... America is our home.
Sarah Palin
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All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
Sarah Bernhardt
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If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.
Kevin Brady
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Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
Chuck Norris
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I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.
Max Schmeling
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You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.
Geoffrey Canada
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You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.
Mehmet Oz