America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
‐‐ Philip James Bailey
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
‐‐ Barack Obama
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
‐‐ Edmund White
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
‐‐ Ian Frazier
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
‐‐ Marlene Dietrich
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
‐‐ Larry Elder
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
‐‐ David Frum
America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market.
‐‐ Michael Porter
America used to be proud of abstraction, and we have fallen away from it. The future depends on people trying to promote that abstract thinking. Not just in relation to music and jazz and the arts, but the economy, social strife, tension between people.
‐‐ Jason Moran
America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.
‐‐ Gary Bauer
America wants its respect.
‐‐ Tupac Shakur
America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
‐‐ Alveda King
America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of dreaming.
‐‐ Trevor Noah
America was and is the immigrant's dream.
‐‐ Don DeLillo
America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
‐‐ Azar Nafisi
America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi
America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
‐‐ James Frey
America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.
‐‐ Kent Conrad
America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein
America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.
‐‐ Edwin Meese
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
‐‐ James Madison
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
‐‐ David Scott
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
‐‐ Harry S Truman
America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
‐‐ Sam Kean
America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it.
‐‐ Justin Hayward
America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
‐‐ Francis Parkman
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
‐‐ Louis Farrakhan
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi
America will honor our treaty obligations.
‐‐ John R. Allen
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
‐‐ George W. Bush
America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.
‐‐ Dennis Prager
America wins when we trade and export and import.
‐‐ Mike Pence
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
‐‐ Jo Ann Emerson
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.
‐‐ Adora Svitak
American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.
‐‐ Max Irons
American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.
‐‐ Helen Mirren
American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
‐‐ Carice van Houten
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
‐‐ Michael Schudson