America Quotes
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In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.
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Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.
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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.
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It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
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America is a country of excess.
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In America, we trade more energy with our neighbors than we trade with the rest of the world combined. And I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system that crosses borders. I think that would be a great benefit to us.
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I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
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I hope that the North Koreans understand that the conclusions that we came to are conclusions that are embedded in America's security situation.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.
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In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
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In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.
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America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
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Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
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When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.
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We haven't really got to see that much of America because when we're touring there's always interviews to do or whatever, but the things I like most about America are the food -- nachos! -- and the roller coaster at Magic Mountain. The thing I liked least was the cold weather when we were there in February -- it's much better in summer.
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We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.
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A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.
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America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.
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Together let's defend the shared values that already make America and Israel great.
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That they are individuals, rugged even, but in fact they are emptied out, isolate, mass men without a mass, although they’re not men, obviously, but boys, perpetual boys, Peter Pans, man-children, since America is adolescence without end, boys without religion on the one hand or a charismatic leader on the other; they don’t even have a father—President Carter!—to kill or a father to tell them to kill the Jew; they have no Jew; they are libidinally driven to mass surrender without anything to surrender to; they don’t even believe in money or in science, or those beliefs are insufficient; their country has fought and lost its last real war; in a word, they are overfed; in a word, they are starving. These kids, Klaus said, just need a good whipping and some physical labor; these kids, Klaus also said, are undergoing a profound archaic regression.
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Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
