America Quotes

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.

I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me!

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?