America Quotes

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.