America Quotes

• One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Work
  • Color
  • Red

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Present
  • Latin
  • Still

• I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'

  

  Luke Wilson
  • People
  • America
  • Boyfriend

• We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Politics
  • Expect

• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Power
  • Equality

• In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • America
  • Amazing
  • Farm

• When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Poverty
  • Confused

• While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.

  

  Rihanna
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Time
  • Chance

• National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • America
  • War

• This is AMERICA, land of the brave, home of the FREE. Remember freedom of speech???

  

  Saint Jhn
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Speech

• There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Done
  • Job
  • Movie

• If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Want
  • Learn
  • Profound

• It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Time
  • Power
  • Past

• I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • America
  • Society
  • Violence

• America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Dumb
  • Middle East

• Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Important
  • Future

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• We can never be satisfied until we know our children can grow up in a safe and prosperous America.

  

  Brett Guthrie
  • Up
  • Children
  • America

• I think 'Holler If Ya Hear Me' is almost 'A Raisin in the Sun' 50 years later, with just a different 20-year-old voice speaking the words. But it's about access to the American dream and equal lives having equal value in America. It's still holding a mirror up to us so we can see ourselves.

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Up
  • Different
  • American

• The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • America

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