America Quotes
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'Constitutional' is an unashamedly educational podcast from the 'Washington Post.' Sub-titled 'a podcast about the story of America,' it's presented by Lillian Cunningham, who engages scholars to explain the fascinating story of how a nation is designed from scratch.
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As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.
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Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?
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But given the many shapes and forms the back door could take, she was pretty sure he’d already been through a couple of them, whether he knew it or not. Was it even possible to grow up a poor black man in America and avoid the back door?
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If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
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When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
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Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very close with him in preparation for his first visit to the United States in 1979, he studied our normative documents, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution. And he was amazed. He called his priests first thing in the morning and he said, he said, I thought America was a pagan country.
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Growing up in America, even in the rougher parts of Elizabeth, I had two nice playgrounds to choose from as a child.
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It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.
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Early in life, Duveen...noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.
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Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone owners, masters of America.
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The people of Afghanistan should know that America is not their friend and that America's war and peace with all other countries are based on its own interests.
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Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
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There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.
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If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.
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In America we have nothing that takes the place of the gods and goddesses and heroes and demigods of the ancient world. There is nothing to connect us with the soil. We have no mythology. It has never been possible to construct one.
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Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
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I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle, it has to be this and that.
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Adjectives are the curse of America.
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Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
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I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.
