America Quote by Anais Nin

America is learning the art of humility. That's a good thing for the rest of the world.

— Katty Kay

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

— Jessica Lange

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in…

— Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

— William O. Douglas

Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions, duration of…

— Chris Hayes

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who…

— Carlisle Floyd

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

— Marjane Satrapi

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size…

— J. William Fulbright

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

— Richard Ford

America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the…

— Doris Lessing

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs…

— Kalle Lasn

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

— Lyndon B. Johnson