America Quotes

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great. But we do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers.

Hillary Clinton
- Great
- America

Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.

Barack Obama
- She
- Kind
- Clinton
Always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams
- Earth
- Wonder
- Design
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.

Barack Obama
- Up
- Time
- Live
Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.

Nelson Algren
- Thinking
- America
When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived.

Ann-Margret
- America
- Mother
- Chicago
To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.

Barack Obama
- People
- Pretty
- Society