America Quotes

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.

And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

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.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

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.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.