America Quotes
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I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!
Jennifer Egan
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
Ahmed Ben Bella
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.
John Entwistle The Who
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. O, my America, my Newfoundland My kingdom, safest when with one man mann'd, My mine of precious stones, my empery; How am I blest in thus discovering thee ! To enter in these bonds, is to be free ; Then, where my hand is set, my soul shall be.'
John Donne
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I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.
Corrine Brown
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Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
Virginia Foxx
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We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.
John Roger Stephens
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The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.
Alex Lifeson Rush
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House Republicans have taken the lead in providing America with price stability and a bold plan for this nation's energy future.
Dennis Hastert
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In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.
Donald Trump
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I'm apparently attracted to things that are on the edge of what America really wants to watch: 'Six Feet Under,' 'Sports Night,' 'Dirty Sexy Money,' and 'Parenthood' were always struggling in the ratings. It was kind of heartbreaking not knowing if we get to come back every season.
Peter Krause
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
Andy Stern
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Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Bernie Sanders
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...the Japanese interest him professionally. How do they and the Germans do it, when America's going down the tubes?
John Updike
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Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims.
Yaroslav Trofimov
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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Peggy Noonan
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But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies – or the coalition's forces – with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?
Margaret Thatcher
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I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
JJ Feild
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If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it's everybody's responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.
Megan Rapinoe
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For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.
Jay-Z
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Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'
Paul Craig Roberts
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We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.
Barack Obama