America Quotes

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs.

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.