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America Quotes by Barbara Jordan
- Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on…
- The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
- What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
- But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city…
- I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous…
- We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day…
- Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of…
- We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to…
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon