America Quotes

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.

Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.

What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.