America Quotes

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'