America Quotes · Page 86

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

— Louis-Philippe I of France

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

— Shirley Chisholm

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

— B. J. Thomas

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

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mark Shields

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

— David Frum

You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its…

— David Letterman

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer…

— Frederick Lenz

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.…

— Eddie Vedder

The hard-working Mexican tries to get up here looking for opportunities because America's one of the greatest countries in the world.

— Andy Ruiz Jr

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

— Richard M. Nixon

One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

— Janet Napolitano

I was in America, someone wanted a photo with me, I put my arm around her and she told me not to…

— Rupert Grint

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms…

— Nancy Pelosi

“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more…

— John Adams

Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence…

— Helen Chenoweth-Hage

In another show of America's force to the world, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by boycotting the Olympics. And thus…

— Ann Coulter

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in…

— Jan Brewer

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…

— Edward Said

I think most polling shows that most Americans agree that when it comes to employment that, you know, people should be really…

— Mark Takano

It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who…

— George Mikes

America does not need to be worried with bailing out a European country that has made irresponsible expenditures, and then all of…

— Rick Perry

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

— Greg Abbott

America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.

— Ivo Daalder

I loved shooting in the middle of America, in Ohio and Nebraska and Kentucky.

— Taylor Russell

'Captain America: First Avenger' is very much a Joe Johnston film.

— Kevin Feige

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

— Sam Neill

“In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you .”

— Lensey Namioka

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

— Kevin Jonas

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.

— Chris Murphy

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

— Maz Jobrani

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

— Judith Hayes

I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.

— Wyclef Jean

“Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

— Dick Cheney

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

— Charles Duke

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

— Ronald Reagan