America Quotes
Quotes about America
50 quotes
- “I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in ...” — Bobby Jindal
- “The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet t...” — Julius Evola
- “Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling...” — Marina Budhos
- “Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switze...” — J. J. Ingalls
- “America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can brin...” — Maurice Saatchi
- “In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles...” — Michael M. Honda
- “America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.” — Kevin Mccarthy
- “America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.” — James T. Farrell
- “When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.” — Vine Deloria
- “Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.” — Frank Murkowski
- “Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?” — Nipsey Russell
- “In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.” — Lee Siegel
- “I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.” — Irina Shayk
- “In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.” — Cory Booker
- “Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.” — Alfred Thayer Mahan
- “America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.” — John O'hara
- “Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.” — Niger Innis
- “Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.” — Melissa Cady
- “When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?” — Trevor D. Richardson
- “I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.” — Mickey Kaus
- “Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.” — Eduard Limonov
- “In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.” — Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
- “America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.” — Tom Harkin
- “It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.” — Randall Wallace
- “Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.” — Michael Ignatieff
- “True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come from all walks of lifestyles.” — James Morris Robinson
- “As Americans, we must protect our humanity while fighting terrorism. It we lose that…they have surely won.” — James Morris Robinson
- “The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams.” — Regina Lee Blaszczyk
- “Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...” — David Mazzucchelli
- “I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.” — Imogen Cunningham
- “America's health depends on all businesses, not just healthcare companies, to do their part.” — John Quelch
- “That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.” — Michael Ventura
- “America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.” — Rick Mears
- “Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.” — Wendy Kopp
- “I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.” — Wendy Kopp
- “America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants.” — Michael Gold
- “You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.” — Peggy Noonan
- “Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.” — J. J. Ingalls
- “Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.” — David P. Goldman
- “Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.” — Markham Shaw Pyle
- “The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.” — Norman Podhoretz
- “New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.” — John D. Rosenberg
- “Rugged indiividualism and Rugged groupism. Together they make America strong.” — Tara Lemméy
- “People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.” — Claiborne Pell
- “He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts” — Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers
- “America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...” — Lance Morrow
- “Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.” — Dan Aykroyd
- “Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.” — Robert H. Gurney
- “Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.” — Ada Louise Huxtable
- “I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles.” — J. Richard Singleton