America Quotes

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

America wants its respect.

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

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.

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.