America We Quotes

#1. I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Alan Ball

#2. Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

Janet Napolitano

#3. The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Nathan Myhrvold

#4. In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

Foster Friess

#5. I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

Alonzo Mourning

#6. In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Irwin Shaw

#7. We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America
a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America
that values the service of every patriot.

Barack Obama

#8. God bless the America we are trying to create.

Hillary Clinton

#9. I've always felt that, in America, we're all equal. I don't care what you make or what kind of car you drive. You're not better than me.

Peter Jason

#10. It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

Ruben Blades

#11. It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

Dorothy Hamill

#12. At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

Mitt Romney

#13. In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Stanley Crouch

#14. Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

Corrine Brown

#15. In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. Americans can be so prude sometimes.

Erin Wasson

#16. We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Marian Wright Edelman

#17. This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.

Rachel Caine

#18. In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Charles Kettering

#19. Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.

Nicholas Kristof

#20. In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

Sheena Iyengar

#21. In America we have an idolatry called the "adulation of youth." Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.

Billy Graham

#22. In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

M.F.K. Fisher

#23. In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

Cory Booker

#24. In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

David Horsey

#25. In America, we're really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land.

Mike Tyson

#26. [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Hal Holbrook

#27. We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Rush Limbaugh

#28. Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.

Richard Allen

#29. In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.

Darrell Issa

#30. Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.

Bill Maher

#31. In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

#32. We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

Paul Weyrich

#33. We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

George W. Bush

#34. All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

Ron Suskind

#35. But the thing is, slavery's not a new invention. And solitary confinement - did you know, in America we've got more than twenty-five thousand prisoners in isolation cells?

Emma Donoghue

#36. My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

Reese Witherspoon

#37. My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.

R. YS Perez

#38. This is the America we know because we built it.

Mia Love

#39. Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

Trent Lott

#40. In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.

Jay Leno

#41. In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

Helen Fisher

#42. The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#43. I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

Benjamin Watson

#44. I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.

George W. Bush

#45. In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

Michael Moore

#46. In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. "Why don't we get lunch, and then we'll grab some pizza." Most

Jim Gaffigan

#47. If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

Jamie Dimon

#48. As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.

Rand Paul

#49. I think immigration system that we have is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.

Marco Rubio

#50. Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

Jennifer Granholm

#51. This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

Jay Leno

#52. We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.

Sarah Palin

#53. We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

Anna Eshoo

#54. In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Abraham Verghese

#55. It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Warren Buffett

#56. Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

John McCain

#57. It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Rita Mae Brown

#58. In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

Carolyn Maloney

#59. Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains ... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#60. I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Stephen King

#61. We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.

Shimon Peres

#62. This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

Bill Maher

#63. Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

Beatrice Wood

#64. Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#65. Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

Marian Wright Edelman

#66. We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

Anna Friel

#67. Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive ... Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.

Shawn Lawrence Otto

#68. What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.

Frederick Lenz

#69. When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

Gary Bauer

#70. If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Kevin McCarthy

#71. [W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle.

Louise Seaman Bechtel

#72. In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

Kid Cudi

#73. Here you can shoot the bad guys,' a mercenary says in Baghdad. 'In America we give them corporate bonuses.

Michael Robotham

#74. The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

Mitt Romney

#75. America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Barack Obama

#76. There is a lack of collective support or social support for working people in America. We're told, "You can be, as an individual, anything you want to be, but it must be at something else's - or somebody else's - expense."

Stephanie Coontz

#77. The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#78. In America we have across the country, the entire world.

Tommy Wiseau

#79. We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

Malcolm X

#80. These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Jimmy Buffett

#81. America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights ... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

Michael Bywater

#82. Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

Galen Rowell

#83. Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

Al Franken

#84. We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.

Colin Powell

#85. Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.

Barbara Kingsolver

#86. We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

Oscar Arias

#87. America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do.

Barack Obama

#88. No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

Van Wyck Brooks

#89. Indeed, there is an attack against things Christian in America. We see it in the movies, on TV, in the schools, in the universities, in the public arena, in the courts, and even within some church circles.

D. James Kennedy

#90. Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

James Buchan

#91. You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

Scott Walker

#92. At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

Pete Hegseth

#93. So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

Mario Diaz-Balart

#94. This is America. We're entitled to our opinions."
"Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#95. To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.

Glenn Beck

#96. I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their friendship has gotten stronger from the last film, sure.

Elizabeth Olsen

#97. The scariest stunt I've ever done was on 'Captain America.' We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill up quickly in the submarine.

Richard C. Armitage

#98. That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Marcy Kaptur

#99. When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.

Bernie Sanders

#100. Because above all, we're patriots. We will willingly carry the fight to whoever may be the enemies of the United States of America. We're your front line, unafraid and ready to go in against al Qaeda, jihadists, terrorists, or whoever the hell else threatens this nation.

Marcus Luttrell