America Quotes · Page 137

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

— Madeleine Albright

The great thing about America is, you don't have to listen unless you want to.

— George W. Bush

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

— Nicholas Kristof

I don't want America to be judged as God judged Sodom and Gomorrah.

— Anita Bryant

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

— Jim Steranko

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

— Peter Bergen

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

— John McCain

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

— Lemmy Kilmister

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

— Gretchen Whitmer

The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited…

— Robert P. George

The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public…

— Ajit Pai

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen…

— Ralph Nader

Why are British actors revered in America? Because it's a place of excellence. This is where we are trained to be excellent.…

— Paterson Joseph

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need…

— Jimmy Carter

What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call…

— Arthur Dove

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner,…

— Karl A. Menninger

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an…

— Julian Bond

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other…

— Ehud Olmert

The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better…

— Alice Rivlin

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him…

— Celeste Ng

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed…

— Arundhati Roy

Klinsmann should be remembered as a great coach; I don't think a lot of people see it, but as players, we really…

— DeAndre Yedlin

The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and…

— Pat Robertson

When we look at the wider picture, the relationship between the U.K. and America, I know how valuable the friendship is between…

— Amber Rudd

Everything that happens in America happens in New York.

— Hillary Clinton

The great thing about America is everybody should vote.

— George W. Bush

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

Following America's lead, I think British TV is fantastic.

— Perdita Weeks

I honestly never wanted to come to America. It wasn't part of my goal as an actor.

— Wunmi Mosaku

I think Trump's going to make it easier to be a drug company in America.

— Martin Shkreli

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

— Carol Moseley Braun

North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.

— Joel Edgerton

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

— Abraham Lincoln

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

— Noam Chomsky

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

— Marquis de Lafayette

We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

— Gary Rossington

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

— Arthur Erickson

We have known since the Napoleonic wars that crisis in Europe does affect American's daily lives.

— Jake Auchincloss

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

— Richard Bach