America Quotes

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

~ Christopher Hitchens

There is no way I could have predicted the amazing reception and support that 'Quantico' has received this season or even the way that I have been welcomed into the fold here in America.

~ Priyanka Chopra

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

~ Tom Ford

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

~ Pardis Sabeti

Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.

~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

~ Nelson Rockefeller

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

~ Majora Carter

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

~ Nancy Pearcey

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

~ Breyten Breytenbach

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

~ Pope Francis

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

~ Adam Schiff

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

~ Todd Rundgren

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

~ George W. Bush

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

~ Ann Richards

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

~ Noam Chomsky

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

~ Mitt Romney

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.

~ Larry Wilmore

With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

~ Nancy Pelosi

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

~ Marco Rubio

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

~ Joe Biden

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

~ John Lydon

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

~ Tiger Woods

Cheap labor is a small part of the problem at work here. If it were only cheap labor, America would be in trouble. Because it's other things, too, we have a great chance to turn it around. Here's the problem: Our high corporate tax rate pushes our companies offshore. Our high regulatory burden pushes our companies offshore.

~ Peter Navarro

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

~ Elayne Boosler

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

~ John F. Kelly

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

~ Martin Luther King

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

~ Israel Zangwill

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

~ Camille Paglia

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

~ Jeff Miller

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

~ Robert Reich

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

~ William J. Clinton

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

~ John M. Mchugh

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

~ Michael Ignatieff

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

~ Doc Hastings

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.

~ Chuck Norris

'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.

~ Joe Johnston

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

~ Rufus Wainwright

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.

~ Nathan Hale

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

~ Henry Kissinger