America Quotes

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

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

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

The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times.

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.