America Quote by Eduardo Hughes Galeano

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as…

— Jeb Bush

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't…

— Malcolm X

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed…

— Barack Obama

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of…

— Marco Rubio

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the…

— Ronald Reagan

Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they…

— William J. Clinton

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“in their supposed innocence of and opposition to empire, have become the mythic progenitors of the United States—almost as improbably as Solomon was of…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no…

— Augustus Washington

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

— Jared Polis

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have…

— Ami Bera

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as…

— Ronald Reagan