America Quotes

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

~ Lee Siegel

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

~ Matthew Lillard

What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.

~ Mike Pence

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

~ Langston Hughes

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

~ Howard Schultz

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

~ Ernest Istook

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

~ Ben Shapiro

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

~ Paul Auster

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

~ Azar Nafisi

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

~ P. J. O'rourke

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

~ Natasha Trethewey

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

~ Erykah Badu

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

~ Henry Rollins

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

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

~ Jesse Jackson

Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.

~ Steve Wynn

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

~ Andrew Vachss

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

~ Keith Miller

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

~ Mickey Kaus

Everybody in America is angry about something.

~ Anthony Braxton

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

~ Richard Gough

I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.

~ Richard Schiff

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

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

~ John Raese

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

~ Marco Rubio

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

~ John Doolittle

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

~ John Warner

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

~ John Boehner

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

~ R. Lee Ermey

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

~ Hillary Clinton

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

~ Jane Addams

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

~ Barack Obama

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

~ Elbert Hubbard

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

~ George Soros

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

~ Dave Grohl

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

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

~ Jeremiah Wright