America Quote by Bharati Mukherjee

America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured…

— Bill O'Reilly

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money.…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I work very…

— Sam Lipsyte

We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still…

— David Brooks

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and…

— Jeff Goodell

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with…

— Jennifer Granholm

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with…

— Edward de Bono

One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world.…

— Alison Pill

America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin…

— Michael Bywater

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

— Glenn Ligon

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American…

— Eric Metaxas

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America,…

— Steve Erickson

Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those…

— Barack Obama