America Quotes
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I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.
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It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.
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Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
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As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.
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What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.
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When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
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The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.
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Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American coal, oil shale and oil sands, all of which provide an affordable, abundant and alternative source of fuel. In addition to increasing cost effectiveness options for the government, it will also increase America's energy security.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Every child in America deserves to be in a safe environment that is free from discrimination.
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Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street merged into the Back Bay.
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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.
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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
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America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.
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WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?
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America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.
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The threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in America who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for ISIL.
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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
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I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.
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A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.
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This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America.
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I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.
