America Quotes · Page 59

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

— Thomas Jefferson

'O.J.: Made in America' was one of the best things I've seen in a long time.

— Scott Speedman

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

— Des Hanafin

This guy [Steven Lerner] is a pure anti-capitalist. He despises America. He is on a personal crusade.

— Rush Limbaugh

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

— Bill Vaughan

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.

— H. E. Bates

I love Europe, but I don't want America to become like Europe.

— Charles Murray

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

— Agnes Varda

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away…

— Mario Cuomo

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the…

— John Mahoney

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in…

— George P. Bush

As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height…

— Michelle Alexander

We must have free and fair elections and end the corruption of our government. America will only survive if we do those…

— Anna Paulina Luna

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

— Eric Alterman

Have you seen the Olympic uniforms? It's for the American Olympic team and it's berets. To me, nothing says America like a…

— David Letterman

“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves.…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For…

— Clive James

Now, they have invented a new war to fire our passion and capture imaginationThe War on Christmas. Its a poorly staged rendition…

— Jules Carlysle

The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of…

— Joe Tye

I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before,…

— Andy Warhol

I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America…

— Martin Luther

Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not.…

— Arundhati Roy

“He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with red tops, and…

— Shirley Jackson

All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.

— Guillermo Gomez-Pena

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

— Allen Ginsberg

Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

— Bob Hope

Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.

— Paul Gillin

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.”

— Rudy Rucker

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

— Michael Bloomberg

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

— John McCain

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

— Talib Kweli

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

— Jim Rohn

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

— Anonymous

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

— Marcus Samuelsson

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

— Bill Bryson

The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.

— Georgie Anne Geyer

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

— Wilfrid Sheed