America Quotes
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America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.
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We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
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One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.
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In America, we're divided, deeply divided.
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America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
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Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
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I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.
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America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.
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People forget that in early 1970s, there were 3 sushi bars in New York City. Three. Three. Think about that. Now, there is sushi in... I've eaten it - there is sushi at gas stations in Middle America.
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The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.
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The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.
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I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.
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By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.
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I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.
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America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
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By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'
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It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.
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Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.
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The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.
