America Quotes · Page 69

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I go down to South America every four or five years or so.

— B. J. Thomas

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

— Shirley Chisholm

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

— Louis-Philippe I of France

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

— Joe Biden

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

— Greg Abbott

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

— David Frum

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

— Mark Shields

America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are…

— Tucker Carlson

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The…

— Peter Jackson

In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.''…

— Alex Kingston

America is saying, we want to have justice and safety and end inequalities. And we don't want fancy candidates.

— Eric Adams

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are…

— Henry Rollins

I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation,…

— Mitt Romney

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies…

— Sayyid Qutb

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership…

— David Suzuki

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than…

— Oscar Wilde

I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center…

— Lynne Tillman

I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is…

— Chris Alexander

Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Catholicism is so steeped in imagery. It's one of the many reasons Catholicism has given birth to so many great filmmakers compared…

— Scott Derrickson

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Ride It' did it for me. Not only did the Asian community love it, but the black community and the white community…

— Jay Sean

A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin…

— Stephen Greenblatt

To save money, all of America's TV shows should merge into 'Murder-Solving Toddler Housewives of Cake.'

— Anonymous

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

— Oscar Wilde

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!

— Rachel Stevens

We want to spread football all around the world, not just America.

— Justin Jefferson

“America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit.”

— Henry Miller

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

— Waylon Jennings

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

I'm Japanese, of course, but spending so long in America has made me into a different kind of person.

— Kei Nishikori

I really relate to middle America, and I love bright, vibrant, unique, interesting personalities.

— Jill Wagner

The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks].

— Hugo Chavez

I look forward to making the Department of Interior and America great again.

— Ryan Zinke

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

— Ian Harris

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

— Langston Hughes

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

— Ferdinand Mount

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

— P. J. O'Rourke