All Quotes

America, I am not ignoring you.
‐‐ Sheila Jackson Lee

America, I appreciate you liking me.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.
‐‐ Paz Vega

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
‐‐ Allen Ginsberg

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
‐‐ Allen Ginsberg

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.
‐‐ Janet Reno

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
‐‐ Malcolm X

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

America is a beacon of hope for the world. And yet we are in so much trouble.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does... I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don't want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that's better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous.
‐‐ Judd Gregg

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any - and perhaps more so than most - regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

America is a country formed by diverse communities from different countries. Overall, the country is very hospitable and gives opportunities to grow. Saying that, I'd also say I'm not a 'white' immigrant; a South Asian's experience is different than, say, a European immigrant's.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.
‐‐ David Chang

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
‐‐ Nicky Oppenheimer

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.
‐‐ James Altucher

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
‐‐ Alexander Graham Bell

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
‐‐ Arianna Huffington

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America.
‐‐ Kim Jee-woon

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
‐‐ Adam McKay

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
‐‐ George W. Bush

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
‐‐ David Wilkerson

America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
‐‐ Jackie Walorski

America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli

America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost emotionally, mentally, spiritually.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
‐‐ John Mason Brown

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

America is a meritocracy.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
‐‐ Lord Byron

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
‐‐ Letty Cottin Pogrebin

America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not called emigrants, but 'expats.'
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

America is a nation of laws, and it is wrong for Congresswoman Markey to propose bending the rules for a group of people whose first act in this country was to break the law.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
‐‐ George W. Bush

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
‐‐ C. Wright Mills

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.
‐‐ Laurie Helgoe