Top 100 America Best Quotes
#2. Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
T. Boone Pickens
#3. I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
Jackie Evancho
#4. We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.
Herb Kelleher
#5. Today our nation saw evil ... and we responded with the best of America.
George W. Bush
#6. The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
Michael Hastings
#7. The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.
George W. Bush
#8. Theater in America is a kind of weed sprouting up in the weirdest places. It's deeply democratic and deeply human, and I think it's one of the best things our culture does.
Mac Wellman
#9. I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.
Bernie Sanders
#10. The dance community suddenly came alive with programs like 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Best Dance Crew' and 'Dancing With The Stars.'
Nigel Lythgoe
#11. I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#12. Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
Gary Krist
#13. Fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same.
Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you.
Keep from letting fear make you settle for second best.
Kiera Cass
#14. I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.
Jeb Bush
#15. America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.
Thomas M. Disch
#16. America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.
Richard Gere
#17. I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
William J. Clinton
#18. My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
Buzz Aldrin
#19. Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville
#20. Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
Sarah Vowell
#21. Both sides of the political spectrum must one day realize that limitless government intrusion in the economy, in our personal lives, and in the affairs of other nations cannot serve the best interests of America.
Ron Paul
#22. If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
Raymond Loewy
#23. Immigration reform doesn't impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of ties to Latin America. Some of my best friends are in Latin America.
Howard Graham Buffett
#24. I think the best restaurants in America should be in California.
David Chang
#26. Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
James Madison
#27. America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Ronald Reagan
#28. No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#29. A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
Cornel West
#30. Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
Jeffrey Kluger
#31. It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.
Dave Barry
#32. The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#33. The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#34. I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.
Carlos Slim
#35. As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy of the future. As we all know, the best way to reduce our deficit and bring down our debt is by putting Americans back to work.
Paul Tonko
#36. We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.
Condoleezza Rice
#37. Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
Jill Lepore
#38. In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
Oscar Wilde
#39. The hamburgers in America are the best in the world.
Liam Hemsworth
#40. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
Michael Bennet
#41. When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#42. I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.
Dick Murphy
#43. Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.
Pete Best
#44. The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
Zaha Hadid
#45. My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, the free peoples of the world look to America as the last best hope for peace and for liberty for all humankind, for we are the greatest country on this planet.
John R. Allen
#46. I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.
Henry Clay
#47. The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.
Nicholas Kristof
#48. I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
Chris Christie
#49. And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America
and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.
John F. Kerry
#50. They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.
Leonard Horn
#51. As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
John Warner
#52. Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field.
Reggie Bush
#53. When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?
Jose Andres
#54. I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!
Nick Cannon
#55. I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.
Bill Maher
#56. History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
Jon Meacham
#57. There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.
Richard Trumka
#58. Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.
Kent Conrad
#59. A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
Eric Clapton
#60. Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America
Todd Park
#61. It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.
Terry Teachout
#62. The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
Naveen Jain
#63. We're the worst band in America ... That makes us the best.
Billy Corgan
#64. I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.
Cindy Margolis
#65. There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.
Gerald Griffin
#66. I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
Ed O'Neill
#67. If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.
Jim DeMint
#68. The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
Andy Stern
#69. I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.
George W. Bush
#70. America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.
Pauly Shore
#71. The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
Sargent Shriver
#72. So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn't want. Instead I was embraced.
Kiera Cass
#74. If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.
Adelle Davis
#75. 'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.
Joe Bastianich
#76. So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.
Tucker Carlson
#78. A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Joe Biden
#79. Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together.
Joe Biden
#80. Try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ... results ... I wish you the best in your difficult task.
Albert Schweitzer
#81. Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.
Marita Golden
#82. Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
Lauryn Hill
#83. I want to kill every best-seller list and encourage Americans to discover for themselves inspired new literature that will endure in perpetuity. Let's pluck from squalid obscurity underground, and publish, the next Hemingways, Fitzgeralds, Morrisons, Bellows, Barths, Vonneguts and Faulkners.
David B. Lentz
#84. What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
Robert Stone
#85. To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion.
Teresa Heinz
#86. Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
Zack Wamp
#87. Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.
Jai Courtney
#88. An Apple executive told The New York Times, "We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.
Robert B. Reich
#89. So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.
Rachel Maddow
#90. Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
Naomi Wolf
#91. What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
#92. Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
Samuel P. Huntington
#93. We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
Jim DeMint
#94. Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.
George Vecsey
#95. Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.
James Madison
#96. Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.
Will Rogers
#97. I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.
Lindsey Graham
#98. 'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.
Brandon Flowers
#99. When the United States of America does things in its best interests, it is hated. I'm sorry, that just ticks me off.
Rush Limbaugh
#100. Captain America is definitely the most handsome Avenger," said Cristina. "But I like the Hulk. I would like to heal his broken heart." "We're Nephilim," said Julian. "We're not even supposed to know about the Avengers. Besides," he added, "Iron Man is obviously the best-looking." "Can
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