America Quotes
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Thank God he wasn't the St. Louis Rams' coach. I have a lot of respect for Coach Dungy and like everyone in America, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
Michael Sam -
We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
Joe Biden
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No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
Nan Goldin -
“America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.”
Walter Abish -
Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.
Marc Blucas -
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
Eric Reed Boucher -
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
Elliott Carter -
In industrial countries where male privilege is still firmly entrenched - in Spain, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, for example - women are delaying marriage longer than in America, and often resisting childbearing as well. They are less likely than American women to say that marriage is a good deal.
Stephanie Coontz
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America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.
Marianne Williamson -
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
Dean Kamen -
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
Sean Connery -
I don't want to be another country. I want to be the United States of America, the greatest country in the world.
Carlos Beruff -
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
John Lahr -
America faces grave threats both here and abroad, and the FBI, in concert with its federal, state, and local partners continues to work steadfastly to prevent and hold accountable those responsible for these threats.
Christopher Wray
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People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
James Inhofe -
I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.
Madeleine Albright -
Both of our nations [America and Germany] were proud to join the Paris Climate Agreement which the world should work to implement quickly. Continued global leadership on climate in addition to increasing private investment and clean energy is gonna be critical to meeting this growing threat.
Barack Obama -
Harry Dresden: You’re in America now. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.Anastasia Luccio: Did you bring a sandwich?Harry Dresden: What do I look like, Kissinger?
Jim Butcher -
America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
Anohni
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When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.
Kevin Macdonald -
NATO's nuclear strategy is an essential part of that balance between East and West. To threaten to upset it by refusing to let America base any of her nuclear weapons in Britain would make war more likely, not less likely.
Denis Healey -
I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.
Marquis de Lafayette -
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Bryant H. McGill