America Is Greatest Country Quotes

#1. America is greatest country; but not our government.

Marco Rubio

#2. We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

Bob Graham

#3. If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

Marco Rubio

#4. Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Eliza Farnham

#5. America is the greatest country on Earth - and when people vote with their feet, they come here.

Michael Bloomberg

#6. America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.

Billy Graham

#7. We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

Randall Robinson

#8. It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

Christophe De Margerie

#9. America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Alexander Graham Bell

#10. The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.

Al Lewis

#11. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Pat Buchanan

#13. 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

#14. America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Henry Louis Gates

#15. To consider possibilities was to open yourself up to pain.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.

David Walker

#17. The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

Dennis Prager

#18. I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Bette Davis

#19. It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

Coco Rocha

#20. Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values, and their strengths, and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes to keep America the greatest country in the history of man. And woman.

Nikki Haley

#21. It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

Frank Herbert

#22. In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.

Jim Rohn

#23. America is the greatest country in the whole world.

Chris Rock

#24. America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

Dinesh D'Souza

#25. My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

Rick Santorum

#26. This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how many books are published, how many movies we make. But the greatest myth of all is what America is.

Junot Diaz

#27. Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

Marco Rubio

#28. People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#29. I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

Patrick Rothfuss

#30. When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

Terry Southern

#31. I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

George W. Bush

#32. I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

Dan Rosensweig

#33. I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

Julie Burchill

#34. A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

Lincoln Chafee

#35. In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#36. There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

John Salley