America Quote by Daniel Fried Download Open image “America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.” — Daniel Fried ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Blood Rooted Soil
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We do not let slip from our understanding that America was founded on a bonding of many people, from many places and of various… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
No matter our background, or income, or geography, we are all citizens of America. And no matter our color, or the blood, the color… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea —… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I think, Russia is pushing against the West in general, not just the United States but the institutions of the West, the key governments… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It was my honor to have done what I could do to help. I learned to never underestimate the possibility of change, that values… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that's in our American interests. It's its good that the West is… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but they both… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our liberal values,… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image