America Quotes
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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.
Barack Obama
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There is an unbelievable, close-minded panic over a president who is brown shinned, a first lady that is brown skinned. An America that’s changing its color.
Nancy Giles
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I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.
Stephen Fincher
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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.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.
Estelle
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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.
Harry S Truman
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Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.
Sarah Vowell
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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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.
Ben Lerner
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In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.
Eugene Mirman
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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.
Clare Short
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Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
Richard Neal
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When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.
Hillary Clinton
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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
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There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
Hamilton Holt
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Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
Michael Caine
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O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.
Walt Whitman
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When I was in the Senate, I had a number of trade deals that came before me, and I held them all to the same test. Will they create jobs in America? Will they raise incomes in America? And are they good for our national security? Some of them I voted for.
Hillary Clinton
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When families are strong, America is strong.
Hillary Clinton
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Together let's defend the shared values that already make America and Israel great.
Hillary Clinton
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.
Steve Buyer
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In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Henry Louis Gates
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
George Washington