America Quotes

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

~ Charles Krauthammer

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

~ Jane Green

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

~ George Mcgovern

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

~ Allan Bloom

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

~ Arthur Erickson

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

~ Herbert Hoover

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

~ Eliot Engel

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

~ Michael M. Honda

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

~ Mitt Romney

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

~ Ma Jun

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

~ James Lovelock

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

~ Jay Inslee

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

~ Peter Defazio

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

~ Louis Bacon

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

~ Frank Murkowski

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

~ David Scott

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

~ Steve Earle

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

~ Gary Johnson

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society.

~ John Ridley

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

~ Andrew Young

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

~ Ivan Krastev

As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.

~ Jose Andres

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

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

~ Joe Biden

In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

~ Walter Kirn

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

~ Michael Moriarty

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

~ Jim Sensenbrenner

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

~ Bruce Vilanch

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

~ Roger Wicker

After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

~ Toni Collette

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

~ Charlie Dent

America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

~ Robert Kennedy

To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.

~ Aaron Rodgers

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

~ Steve Buyer

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

~ Benazir Bhutto

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

~ Gary Johnson