America Quotes

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.