America Quotes

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.

I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.