Top 100 America Where Quotes
#1. I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
Edward Kennedy
#2. Indianapolis, Indiana," said Constant, "is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian - " said Constant, "that's the kind of people for me." Salo's
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#3. I was running the show on 'United States of Tara' and 'How To Make It In America' where I could say, 'Okay, I'm in charge of everything now.' But it still wasn't my show.
Jill Soloway
#4. Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.
Janet Fitch
#5. I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
Barack Obama
#6. There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.
Ani DiFranco
#7. I want to make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States because we need Secretary Clinton's focus on making sure that we build an America where our values of inclusion and opportunity for everyone are the values that bring us together.
Tim Kaine
#8. In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
P. J. O'Rourke
#9. John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack Obama
#10. Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
Andre Agassi
#11. I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.
Rick Santorum
#12. I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.
Harry Shum Jr.
#13. My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
Arabella Weir
#14. I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
Lynn Flewelling
#15. There are places and moments in America where this nation's destiny has been decided ... Selma is such a place.
Barack Obama
#16. In case nobody has told you," she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else
where everybody learns to make his or her own way.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.
Ernest L. Boyer
#18. It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.
Elizabeth Hurley
#19. It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.
Jim Gaffigan
#20. I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief.
Edward Kennedy
#21. Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'
Conan O'Brien
#22. If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
Stewart Udall
#23. There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.
Robin Williams
#24. I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity.
Edward Kennedy
#25. I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt
#26. Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.
Werley Nortreus
#27. I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?
Tommy Bond
#28. Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
Rich Lowry
#29. I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
Mitt Romney
#30. You know, the only place in America where the millionaires and billionaires are predominantly liberal is here in Hollywood.
Bill Maher
#31. I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes.
Jack Tretton
#32. In fact, his purity scared them off, and his honesty ignited irrational fear in an America where men were draped with medals for killing other men yet imprisoned for loving one another.
Morrissey
#33. Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
A. Whitney Brown
#34. There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.
David Henry Hwang
#35. There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.
Monica Bellucci
#36. San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.
Conan O'Brien
#37. I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.
Heather Brooke
#38. All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
Coretta Scott King
#39. You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
Frank Grillo
#40. Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president.
John McCain
#41. What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Agatha Christie
#42. In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.
Stephen King
#43. Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
Brigitte Nielsen
#44. I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
Jane Fonda
#45. I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.
Mitt Romney
#46. Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.
Douglas Coupland
#47. Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that's when you get into selling the house.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#48. It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
Martin Amis
#49. For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs that they had, only to be brought to America where they're not treated like Americans - they're just not really treated like anything.
Molly Antopol
#50. I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.
Ryan Reynolds
#51. We live in America where each and every person has the equal opportunity to take their iPhone or a smartphone and create something and put it online and have the equal ability to blow up and be successful. It's a tool I hope we inspire tons of people to pick up and go after their dreams.
Todrick Hall
#52. I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.
Bernie Sanders
#53. 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
#54. America - where we hate our
fathers, love our mothers, and
everyone is hung up on trying
to be a man
Phil Volatile
#55. Democracy was a terrifying concept for the old world of Europe, and even the new world of North America, where income inequality was rife. The finest minds of the nineteenth century warned against giving the vote to the workingman, for fear of mob rule or the tyranny of the majority.
George Megalogenis
#56. Americans ... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama
#57. I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.
John F. Kennedy
#58. This is America, where everything is still possible.
John Edwards
#59. America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.
Bertrand Russell
#60. The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan
#61. I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004
George W. Bush
#62. I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
Daniel Wu
#64. My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
Heather Brooke
#65. I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
Cher
#67. Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.
Tom Hardy
#68. The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.
Bud Collins
#69. I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.
Mitt Romney
#70. Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights ... We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many.
Ron Paul
#71. America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.
Guillermo Del Toro
#72. There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.
Julianne Moore
#73. I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#74. America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
Anatole France
#75. We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.
Hillary Clinton
#76. There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
Mario Van Peebles
#77. It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Van Morrison
#78. Long, long ago, I learned the heart cannot live in two places. I had to choose. My heart is in America. Where is yours?
Marivi Soliven
#79. I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
Brian May
#80. The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English's time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft of a rigorously exacting nature has been cast to the margins of the culture.
John McWhorter
#81. When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.
Grace Paley
#82. I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.
Sylvester McCoy
#83. There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katharine Whitehorn
#84. I swore then and there," Lyndon Johnson was to say, "that if I ever had a chance to help those underprivileged kids I was going to do it." It was at Cotulla, Lyndon Johnson was to say, "that my dream began of an America ... where race, religion, language and color didn't count against you.
Robert A. Caro
#85. Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they're fleeing from the results of our policies.
Noam Chomsky
#86. The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.
Michel Gondry
#87. You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
Bob Mould
#88. I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.
Bassem Youssef
#89. Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.
Jimmy Fallon
#90. Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian
that's the kind of people for me.
Kurt Vonnegut
#91. I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.
Edward Kennedy
#92. There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.
Geraldo Rivera
#93. My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.
Suzy Amis
#94. I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end ... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.
John F. Kennedy
#95. Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
Mitt Romney
#96. The idea of America, where emigrants could meld with others in the great classless pot called the United States. Did it work, really?
Nancy Horan
#97. This is America ... where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young
Dennis Lehane
#98. An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.
Bernie Sanders
#99. My karma was to be born in America where adults do not believe in happiness or fun, or at most these are considered low priorities. But everytime I leave this country, I always long for home.
Jose N. Harris
#100. Avarice is not unknown in Italy, and Rinaldo Pazzi had imbibed plenty with his native air. But his natural acquisitiveness and ambition had been whetted in America, where every influence is felt more quickly, including the death of Jehovah and the incumbency of Mammon. When
Thomas Harris
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