America Quotes

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.