America Quotes

• We always get lumped into that whole '80s thing, but we were never a part of it. For a start, we weren't even from America. And anything that those bands did, they only did because we started it off. That's the only thing that we can be attached to the blame of.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Start
  • Blame
  • Bands

• Where is the president at this Time of Need! Probably playing shuffleboard or having her period!’ It’s not my fault I like shuffleboard so much. I always say, add up all the time every other president has spent golfing and tell me that my shuffleboard habit is bad for America.

  

  Hank Green
  • President
  • Time of Need
  • Shuffleboard

• The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.

  

  Katie Pavlich
  • Justice
  • President
  • Hands

• A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

  

  Terry Gross
  • America
  • Differences
  • Class

• In America, one of the biggest problems we have with China is the illegal dumping of steel and aluminum into our markets. I have fought against that as a senator. I've stood up against it as secretary of state.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Problems
  • China
  • Markets

• There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that's probably another reason I don't go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It's boring, dull, very lazy writing.

  

  Art Malik
  • People
  • Writing
  • Lazy

• I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Facts

• If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Free
  • Security
  • Destroyed

• Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Teaching
  • Teachers
  • Improve

• When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Use
  • Names
  • Jazz

• I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

  

  Sydney Schanberg
  • America
  • Media
  • Center

• Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

  

  Hallie Flanagan
  • Art
  • America
  • Luxury

• Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!” To class she went only once. “I don’t go back,” she said emphatically. “Too foolish book, Dick and Jane.” She shrugged disdainfully. “Not Tolstoi!"

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Book
  • America
  • Genius

• In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.

  

  Ellery Sedgwick
  • World
  • Mean
  • Known

• I intend to be a leader of America that people can count on, both here at home and around the world, to make decisions that will further peace and prosperity, but also stand up to bullies, whether they're abroad or at home.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • America
  • Leader

• We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

  

  Michael Smith
  • Planet
  • Destroyed
  • Large

• The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Sleep
  • Troubles
  • Classics

• The Democratic party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • America
  • Agriculture
  • Democratic Party

• It's the best motivation to save for retirement that we've seen in America. Everybody should be in the Roth game if they can.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Game
  • motivation
  • Retirement

• I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Work
  • England
  • Tax

• America can only live up to its potential when each and every American has the chance to live up to your potential, too.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Chance
  • Potential

• There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Politics
  • Tradition
  • Poets

• Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • America
  • Television
  • Boys

• The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Life
  • Society
  • Journalism

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