America Quotes
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Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.
John Garamendi -
It is kind of a problem in America that so many Americans believe if they elect a different president, everything is going to be fine.
Jeff Greene
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More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
Don Lemon -
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman -
Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.
Peter T. King -
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
Deborah Kass -
This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.
Blase J. Cupich -
Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.
August Wilson
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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
George McGovern -
I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
Laurie Graham -
Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
Bozoma Saint John -
I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
Madeleine Albright -
There are conservative people in all colours in America.
Adepero Oduye -
Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.
David Malpass
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
Ellsworth Huntington -
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass -
America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.
Charles Best -
It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them. —playwright Lillian Hellman
Carol Tavris -
But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!
Robert James Ritchi -
My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.
Jennifer Granholm -
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.
John Paul Jones -
Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.
Marquis de Lafayette -
If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
Henry Rollins Black Flag