America Quotes

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

This is America, where everything is still possible.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.