America Quotes

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

I have grown up in the bright light of America.

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.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

This is America, where everything is still possible.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.