America Is Quotes

#1. I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.

Al Gore

#2. We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.

Paula Creamer

#3. The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

Paul Fleischman

#4. America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

Charles A. Reich

#5. America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

Matt Taibbi

#6. ****your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)

Richard Clogg

#7. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

#8. I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.

Matt Bomer

#9. America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Claire Wolfe

#10. Yoga in America is a joke.

Bikram Choudhury

#11. America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

Dick Gephardt

#12. america...is the interplay of three hundred million rube goldberg contraptions invented only yesterday

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#13. It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Ice Cube

#14. 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

#15. My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.

Howard Schultz

#16. America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.

Jamaica Kincaid

#17. America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

Joni Mitchell

#18. People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Eddie Vedder

#19. One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

William Safire

#20. Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.

Cynthia Daignault

#21. The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.

Barack Obama

#22. When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

Malcolm X

#23. But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

Lake Bell

#24. The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

Ryan Stiles

#25. If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

Ted Nugent

#26. At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

Estelle Parsons

#27. This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

Artur Davis

#28. I think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.

Will Packer

#29. I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

Gail Sheehy

#30. Some of the most vivid writing in America is on the walls of restrooms. The men's room in the Albany, N.Y. railroad station, for instance, should be preserved as a national shrine: there is more wit there than in any Broadway hit!

Truman Capote

#31. America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say "perception" because America is a very all-or-nothing society ... We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't uncontested, it was positively devastating.

Max Brooks

#32. Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle

#33. America is not a country, it is a world.

Oscar Wilde

#34. was freed to truly consider how I wished to live - specifically, how do I live free in this black body? It is a profound question because America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. I

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#35. Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

Douglas Adams

#36. America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

Elon Musk

#37. I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.

Raul Ruiz

#38. Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Timothy Garton Ash

#39. America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.

Nas

#40. The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment ... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#41. America is a meritocracy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#42. The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

Alvin R. Dyer

#43. To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#44. Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.

Rush Limbaugh

#45. At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Manning Marable

#46. One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Elmer Davis

#47. The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

Ted Strickland

#48. One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

John Naisbitt

#49. I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

George W. Bush

#50. If Hollywood is the global producer for [media] products all around the world, that's of concern. If all audiences around the world know of America is what they see from Hollywood, then we're in trouble.

Arthur Dong

#51. The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

George W. Bush

#52. America is an empire. And sooner or later, every empire falls." -Maryanna Louis

Tristan Slaughter

#53. The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

Lee H. Hamilton

#54. The horror that is America is disgusting.

Bowe Bergdahl

#55. America is another name for opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Phil Bredesen

#57. Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

Tyler Oakley

#58. The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.

Robert L. Payton

#59. There is no doubt that America is now the prime target of international communism.

J. Edgar Hoover

#60. The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

Hollis Stacy

#61. America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

C. Wright Mills

#62. The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge

#63. America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

Tom Wolfe

#64. Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Donald Hall

#65. I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

Beverly LaHaye

#66. The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Andy Warhol

#67. America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

David Brooks

#68. Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

Harvey Cox

#69. I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

John Sayles

#70. India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

Clark Blaise

#71. What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we're fearful, we become divided. When we're courageous and have good leadership, we unite.

Keith Ellison

#72. I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

Jack Kerouac

#73. I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.

Ronald Reagan

#74. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

Liam Neeson

#75. America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot,

Eric Stonestreet

#76. America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

Mitch McConnell

#77. I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Aleksandar Hemon

#78. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Barack Obama

#79. The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

Woodrow Wilson

#80. The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

William S. Knudsen

#81. The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

Oliver DeMille

#82. I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

#83. Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.

Dinesh D'Souza

#84. For heaven's sakes, every parent in America is checking social media and every employer is as well, but our government can't do it.

Carly Fiorina

#85. America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

John Sayles

#86. The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Madeleine Albright

#87. [Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake." Ragtime

E.L. Doctorow

#88. America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

Faith Popcorn

#89. The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

Tariq Ramadan

#90. Europe isn't something connected by the Euro. Every little dimension of Europe is so hugely different, and I think America is different in its states as well, so I never really think of things in big blocks, in terms of other artists.

Patrick Wolf

#91. America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

George W. Bush

#92. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Hillary Clinton

#93. America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

Paul Mooney

#94. I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

David Banner

#95. Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

Raquel Cepeda

#96. Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Matthew Arnold

#97. America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.

Mario Balotelli

#98. America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

John Podhoretz

#99. Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Raquel Cepeda

#100. America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

Bob Hope