America Quotes · Page 465

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here…

— Harry Belafonte

“While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, I And protest, only a bubble in the…

— Robinson Jeffers

The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political,…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half…

— Richard Jackson

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts…

— Peter Welch

Every country has a founding mythology. For Americans, it starts with our first president's youthful encounter with a cherry tree and refusal…

— Antony Blinken

My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power…

— Bakari Kitwana

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter…

— Patrisse Cullors

Diversity, in the true sense of the word, is good. No one committed to liberty and equal opportunity disputes that. Every fair-minded…

— Norah Vincent

I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your…

— Rufus Wainwright

It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that…

— John Michael Greer

As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh -…

— J. Budziszewski

Perhaps because I never left England and went to America - I think the public sort of appreciated that. I visited and…

— Vera Lynn

The terrorist attacks on September the 11th were a turning point for our nation. We saw the goals of a determined enemy:…

— George W. Bush

I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also…

— Cat Cora

I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It…

— India de Beaufort

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they…

— Herbert Schiller

You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City.…

— Gerald Celente

I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus - this is a…

— Chael Sonnen

If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America,…

— Mitt Romney

As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more…

— Anonymous

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham…

— Ian Rush

“Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Superman – Moses in a costume, with his underpants on the outside. Captain America – the poster boy of the mad American…

— David Sinclair

[When a John McCain political campaign video that used her image] That wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which…

— Paris Hilton

If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and…

— Bill Maher

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…

— Margaret Mead

It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry…

— Bonnie McFarlane

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness…

— Mike Myers

I think if there aren't Republicans standing up to Trump and showing America that he does not represent the Republican Party, then…

— Ana Navarro

You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be…

— Tom Vilsack

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I…

— Rex Stout

Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who…

— Nur Muhammad Taraki

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this is…

— Medgar Evers

All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . .…

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the…

— Henry Louis Gates

I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that food stamps is a program that really helps America, helps…

— Cory Booker

I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow…

— Bernie Sanders

From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence,…

— Sheldon Whitehouse