Quotes About America

#1. Politicians never live up to all the hopes that we invest in them but I think he [Barack Obama] has made America a different country.

Michael Fullilove

#2. We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

Ruth Reichl

#3. Harriet Tubman was a spy for the United States of America Union Army during the Civil War. 9.

Stephen R. Daily

#4. I will tell you that the special relationship that America has with the Israeli people transcends any of the politics.

Kevin McCarthy

#5. An apology for America's values is never the right course.

Mitt Romney

#6. One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

Olympia Snowe

#7. America ... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

John Quincy Adams

#8. America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

Cathleen McGuigan

#9. There have been conversations here in the United States about why every ex-President opens a library when politicians do not read the books. Hello, America! Kind of explains your politics. For me, reading saved me, it brought me back.

John Lydon

#10. London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.

Boris Johnson

#11. I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

Christopher Guest

#12. 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

#13. And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves ... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

John Boehner

#14. We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler.

Seymour Hersh

#15. If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

Vincent Bugliosi

#16. No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.

Jimmy Carter

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

Oscar Wilde

#18. We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.

Mitch McConnell

#19. The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

Harry Browne

#20. I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

Condoleezza Rice

#21. Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.

Harry Johnston

#22. First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!

Zoe McLellan

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I looked down at America, who was now poking her cheeks with her fingers, seemingly just so she could see how it felt.

Kiera Cass

#26. In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

Cory Booker

#27. Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

Bruce L. Shelley

#28. Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#29. Chinese people questioned my yellowness because I was born in America. Then white people questioned my identity as an American because I was yellow.

Eddie Huang

#30. Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Louis Farrakhan

#31. America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.

Ricky Gervais

#32. Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

Jane D. Hull

#33. I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#34. I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America.

Chris Matakas

#35. There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

Mike Huckabee

#36. 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

#37. [Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.

Rick Santorum

#38. America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

#39. Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

James Toback

#40. Must the mistakes of history be endlessly repeated? Granting PNTR to China will strengthen the hand of hard-liners, by telling the regime that America will never do anything meaningful to counter its aggression.

Don Feder

#41. 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

#42. Hamilton saw America's essential nature being forged in the throes of battle, and that made honest action imperative.

Ron Chernow

#43. New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.

Bill Maher

#44. The European generally submits to a public officer because he represents a superior force; but to an American he represents a right. In America it may be said that no one renders obedience to man, but to justice and to law.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#45. In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag

#46. The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Thomas Sowell

#47. Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Matt Taibbi

#48. Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market ... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One.

Alexander Rossi

#49. I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

Warren Littlefield

#50. The U.S. Congress can do a lot to support America's workplaces and the family. By working together in a bipartisan fashion, we can ensure our constituents get jobs they need while helping employers make smart decisions about their workforce.

Charles B. Rangel

#51. America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Joe Biden

#52. I have been a huge fan of America, as I find their way of life there is pretty unique, and I have enjoyed a lot of good times over there.

Michael Schumacher

#53. 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

#54. Just as America has grown and prospered within the framework of our Constitution, so Christianity has flourished and spread according to the laws set forth in the Bible.

Billy Graham

#55. That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

Dee Dee Myers

#56. We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

Nan Hayworth

#57. The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.

Mitt Romney

#58. How come people always flip and think they're Jesus? Why not Buddha? Particularly in America, where more people resemble Buddha than Jesus. 'Ah'm BUDDHA!' 'You're Bubba!' 'Ah'm Buddha now..All I gotta do is change 3 letters on ma belt ...

Bill Hicks

#59. The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#60. You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge?

David Letterman

#61. The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.

Stephen Neufeld

#62. We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.

James Lankford

#63. We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.

Newt Gingrich

#64. The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

Jonathan Raban

#65. America needs to be secure at home and abroad.

Rick Larsen

#66. Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.

Malcolm X

#67. What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Michael Bloomberg

#68. Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Haruki Murakami

#69. Why go to France when you can smell the same people in coffee shops here in America.

Felipe Esparza

#70. 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

#71. I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.

Edward Jay Epstein

#72. You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

Nicole Kidman

#73. I have never been proud of America my entire adult life.

Michelle Obama

#74. 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

#75. I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Peter Singer

#76. Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

Stanley Hauerwas

#77. The working mothers of America deserve medals.

Constance Marie

#78. [Lloyd George] said that Harding 's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

David Lloyd George

#79. I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

James McGreevey

#80. The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Ayn Rand

#81. Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Donny Osmond

#82. People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

P. J. O'Rourke

#83. There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Chaim Weizmann

#84. The Constitution itself, the DNA of the country, can be altered by the collective will of the people, making America a self-evolving and self-writing program.

Bryant McGill

#85. I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.

Corin Tucker

#86. Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

John Clellon Holmes

#87. The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

Rob Walton

#88. 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

#89. America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

Janet Reno

#90. The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

Bob Ney

#91. Whether you like it or not, the course of your (America's) history has made you the leaders of the world. Your country can no longer think provincially.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#92. France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Rich Lowry

#93. America was becoming the world's best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.

Norman Spinrad

#94. If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

Satish Kumar

#95. My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

Masiela Lusha

#96. The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.

Alex Lifeson

#97. To me pornography is ... spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

Bill Hicks

#98. America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

Christopher Bond

#99. The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

Ronald Reagan

#100. I lived in South America when I was growing up. I spent hours sketching. I was good at drawing, and I was obsessed with fashion, but I was also obsessed with magazines.

Nina Garcia