America Quote by George Mikes

Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know

— Margaret Thatcher

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how…

— Alan Jay Lerner

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has…

— Spencer Bachus

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years…

— Robert Burchfield

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

— Ernest Istook

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

— Trish Regan

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is…

— William Golding

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

— Enrique Iglesias

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and…

— Rowan Atkinson

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

— David Brooks