America Quotes

When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

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

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

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

I think America is on the right track.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.