America Quotes

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

~ Ted Nugent

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

~ Robert Benchley

I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'

~ David Ignatius

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

~ Gil Scott-Heron

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

~ Dhani Jones

America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.

~ Adora Svitak

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

~ Marco Rubio

I love America. It's such a positive country.

~ Victoria Beckham

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

~ Victoria Beckham

You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

~ Victoria Beckham

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

~ Wendy Kopp

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

~ Paulina Porizkova

I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.

~ Renata Tebaldi

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

~ Eric Schlosser

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

~ Andy Warhol

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

~ Steven Pinker

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

~ Michael Caine

As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

~ Campbell Brown

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.

~ Edward Zwick

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

~ Ahmed Zewail

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

~ Patrick Henry

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

~ Calvin Coolidge

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

~ Charles M. Blow

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

~ Henry James

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

~ Jimmy Carter

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

~ Mitt Romney

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

~ Elon Musk

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

~ Henry Louis Gates

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

~ Michael Ignatieff

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

~ Richard Ford

I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

~ Nate Parker

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

~ Greil Marcus

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

~ Joseph M. Kyrillos

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

~ William Blum

Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fault of their own who want to perform the ultimate act of patriotism in defending America.

~ Jeff Denham

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

~ David Ben-Gurion

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

~ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson