America Quotes

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

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

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

America has always imported history.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

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.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.