America Quotes

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Af...

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about ...

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The Ame...

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous...

I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was...

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. Americ...

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what d...

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Up...

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overco...

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is ...

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the w...

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

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If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which wa...

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I...

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of pove...

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, i...

In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than ...

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full...

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends...

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been de...

In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passenger...

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their prob...

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky even...

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cass...

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of kno...

The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of thi...

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about ...

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove t...

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove t...

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was ...

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or ju...

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote...

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, so...

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fight...

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatne...

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are ...

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show,...

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reaso...

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My t...

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people...

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the worl...

Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or a...

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war ...

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four ye...

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation...

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They...

America is a country of young men.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait lon...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be abou...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of Ameri...

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Ma...

Why dost thou not see that on earth they desires fly from thee? Art thou a not as a child that think...

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rig...

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the poli...

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing some...

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of t...

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on go...

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more...

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the abilit...

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for th...

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like ...

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, se...

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowh...

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through it...

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him ...

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposele...

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high countr...

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not the...

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not...

That old unionism was, however, very different from the kind we live with now. We do not live with a...

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant usel...

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, I And protes...

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a pla...

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This ...