America Quotes

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

~ Nelson Mandela

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

~ John Oliver

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

~ Paul Wellstone

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

~ Zell Miller

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

~ Marco Rubio

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

~ J. C. Watts

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

~ Ken Livingstone

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

~ Dan Aykroyd

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

~ Ted Cruz

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

~ Robert Reich

If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

~ Evgeny Morozov

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

~ Jimmy Fallon

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

~ Billy Bragg

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

~ Zell Miller

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship - it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.

~ Tzipi Livni

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

~ Isabel Lucas

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

~ Harry Connick

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

~ Richard Attenborough

Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

~ Israel Broussard

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

~ Eric Holder

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

~ David Schwimmer

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.

~ Trevor Rabin

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

~ Russell Pearce

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

~ Phil Gramm

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

~ Andy Rooney

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

~ Ed Markey

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

~ Barbara Bush

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

~ Matthew Desmond

I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s.

~ Jeff Lemire

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

~ Al Franken

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

~ Laurence J. Peter

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

~ Nas

It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.

~ Harry Reid

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

~ Andrew Young

The white working class wants jobs. They don't want to be stuck trying to make ends meet with part-time work and government assistance. They want a good paying job that they can take pride in. The type of job that has fled America thanks to the Left.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

~ Simon Mainwaring

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

~ Mitt Romney