America Quotes · Page 121

Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

— Matt Bomer

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

— Randall Jarrell

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

— Warren Buffett

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

— Anthony Hopkins

Don't be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn't turn Iran into a friend of America.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

— Maureen O'Hara

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

— Eddie Huang

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

— Jeremy Jackson

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying…

— Carey Mulligan

There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.

— Lupe Ontiveros

America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

— Henry Rollins

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

— Thaddeus Stevens

I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different…

— Edward Kennedy

America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil…

— Hillary Clinton

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of…

— Bob Dylan

I cannot for the life of me understand why the American market keeps going up. Our economy has some real challenges. The…

— Michael Bloomberg

Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look…

— Dennis Prager

I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's…

— Ang Lee

I believe in a America first foreign policy, that far too often President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton - and, unfortunately, more…

— Ted Cruz

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to…

— Quentin Crisp

If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you…

— Sean Scully

How many of y'all wondered, like I did, during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks…

— Bill Hicks

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

— Bob Hope

To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.

— Jon Stewart

I'd love to explore South America, but the security issues worry me.

— Michael Ball

In America, everything is big and more like a jungle.

— Meital Dohan

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

— Ed McMahon

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

— Thomas Paine

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

— Edwin Newman

The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.

— Craig Ferguson

America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.

— Jimmy Webb

America First has worked for America, it needs to continue to work for America.

— Bill Hagerty

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

— Nancy Johnson

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

— Bernie Sanders

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

— George W. Bush

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

— Cathleen McGuigan

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

— Frank Zappa

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

— Russell Crowe