America Quotes

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

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.