Quotes on America

Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.

Author: Spencer Abraham

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

Author: Floyd Abrams

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Author: Gary Ackerman

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Author: Gary Ackerman

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Author: John Adams

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

Author: John Agar

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

Author: Clay Aiken

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Author: Roger Ailes

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

Author: Daniel Akaka

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Author: Madeleine Albright

I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world.

Author: Ahmed Ali

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Author: Tatyana Ali

I think America is on the right track.

Author: Wayne Allard

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

Author: Iyad Allawi

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Author: Peter Allen

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Author: Woody Allen

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Author: Barbara Amiel

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Author: Laurie Anderson

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

Author: Naveen Andrews

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

Author: Joaquin Andujar

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Author: Kenneth Anger

You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines.

Author: Sharron Angle

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Author: Joan Armatrading

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

Author: Dick Armey

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

Author: Billie Armstrong

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Author: Desi Arnaz

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

Author: John Ashcroft

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Author: Arthur Ashe

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Author: Margot Asquith

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

Author: Dan Aykroyd

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

Author: Irving Babbitt

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

Author: Joe Baca

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Author: Joe Baca

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.

Author: Spencer Bachus

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

Author: Spencer Bachus

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Author: Philip Bailey

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Author: Russell Baker

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Author: Russell Baker

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

Author: George Ball

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

Author: Jim Balsillie

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

Author: Antonio Banderas

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

Author: Lester Bangs

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Author: Roger Bannister

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

Author: Javier Bardem

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Author: John Barrymore

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.

Author: Charles Bass

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.

Author: H. Bates

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

Author: Max Baucus

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.

Author: Evan Bayh

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Author: Glenn Beck

To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.

Author: Glenn Beck

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Author: Glenn Beck

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

Author: Glenn Beck

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

Author: Paul Begala

Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America.

Author: Jason Behr

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

Author: Ahmed Bella

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

Author: Ahmed Bella

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

Author: Saul Bellow

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

Author: William Bennett

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

Author: Chester Bennington

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

Author: Peter Berger

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

Author: Michael Beschloss

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

Author: Michael Beschloss

Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.

Author: Rob Bishop

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Author: Otto Bismarck

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

Author: Karen Black

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

Author: Ruben Blades

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

Author: Tony Blair

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

Author: Felix Bloch

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.

Author: Sherwood Boehlert

They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

Author: John Boehner

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

Author: Kit Bond

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Author: Kit Bond

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?

Author: Tommy Bond

We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

Author: John Bonham

So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.

Author: Sean Booth

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

Author: Billy Bragg

I'll not be changing, but America will.

Author: Russell Brand

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Author: Carol Braun

I want to rebuild America.

Author: Carol Braun

Everybody in America is angry about something.

Author: Anthony Braxton

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

Author: James Breasted

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Author: Breyten Breytenbach

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

Author: Joe Briggs

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

Author: David Brin

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

Author: Tom Brokaw

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

Author: Bryan Brown

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

Author: Corrine Brown

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

Author: Gordon Brown

This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought.

Author: Sherrod Brown

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

Author: John Bruton

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

Author: William Bryan

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

Author: Pat Buchanan

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Author: Jimmy Buffett

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Author: Warren Buffett

This is America, not a banana republic.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Author: Jeremy Bulloch

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Author: Ken Burns

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Author: George Bush

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Author: George Bush

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Author: George Bush

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Author: George Bush

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

Author: George Bush

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Author: Laura Bush

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Author: Nicholas Butler

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

Author: Yancy Butler

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

Author: Steve Buyer

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

Author: Steve Buyer

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

Author: Sammy Cahn

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

Author: Jim Capaldi

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Author: Lois Capps

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Author: Drew Carey

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

Author: George Carlin

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Author: Tucker Carlson

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Author: John Carre

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

Author: Elliott Carter

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Author: Jimmy Carter

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Author: Stephen Carter

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Author: Bruce Catton

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Author: Iris Chang

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

Author: Leslie Charteris

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Author: Ilka Chase

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

Author: Hugo Chavez

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

Author: Dick Cheney

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

Author: Lee Child

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

Author: Chris Chocola

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.

Author: Julie Christie

I'd never been content in America.

Author: Julie Christie

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

Author: Warren Christopher

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

Author: Carlo Ciampi

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

Author: Tom Clancy

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.

Author: Eric Clapton

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Author: Hillary Clinton

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

Author: William Clinton

America can't beat anyone anymore.

Author: George Clooney

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

Author: Nick Clooney

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

Author: Nick Clooney

Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

Author: Jim Clyburn

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

Author: Andrew Cohen

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

Author: Arthur Cohn