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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.
Louis Leakey

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
Sun Ra

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.
Corrine Brown

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.
Corrine Brown

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
David McCullough

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
Clay Aiken

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
Billy Joel

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Nina Simone

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Nina Simone

I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.
Ryan Reynolds

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?
Ryan Reynolds

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
Marco Rubio

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.
Marco Rubio


And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
Marco Rubio

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.
Marco Rubio

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
Marco Rubio

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.
Marco Rubio

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.
Marco Rubio

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
Marco Rubio

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
Marco Rubio

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Marco Rubio

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.
Marco Rubio

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Hu Shih

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
Mitch McConnell

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?
Sean Hannity

I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
Salma Hayek

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
Jacques Maritain

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover

I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.
Hillary Rodham Clinton

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
Jack Kerouac

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Jeffery F. Chamberlain

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carter

All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
John Adams

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
John F. Kennedy

§I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
John Kerry

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
Judith Martin

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. Peter

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
Andy Warhol

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Charlie Chaplin

The glamour of it all! New York! America!
Charlie Chaplin

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwaite

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
Bono

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
Charles Luckman

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Dinesh D'Souza

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Georg W. Hegel

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
George F. Will

America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
George W. Bush

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
George W. Bush

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
George W. Bush

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford II

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Will Smith

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
Marilyn Manson

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James Madison

Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.
Richard Branson

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Mitt Romney

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
Mitt Romney

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt Romney

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
Mitt Romney

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.
Mitt Romney

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
Mitt Romney

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
Mitt Romney

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
Mitt Romney

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Mitt Romney

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.
Mitt Romney

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
Clarence Darrow

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Richard M. Nixon

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. Nixon

The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow Wilson

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Woodrow Wilson

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
Donald Trump

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
George W. Bush

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
George W. Bush

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
George W. Bush

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
George W. Bush

I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
George W. Bush

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
George W. Bush

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
George W. Bush

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover

If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
Babe Ruth

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Thomas Sowell

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
Herman Melville

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
Saul Bellow

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
Billie Joe Armstrong

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
R. Lee Ermey

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
R. Lee Ermey

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
Jimmy Buffett

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.
Rush Limbaugh

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.
Rush Limbaugh

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'Rourke

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

America is just downright mean.
Michelle Obama

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle Obama

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle Obama

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
Bill Hicks

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce

This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
George H. W. Bush

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. Bush

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
Arthur Ashe

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.
Ron White

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
William Howard Taft

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
George Soros

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Meryl Streep

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
Adlai E. Stevenson

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.
Christopher Walken

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Marshall McLuhan

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."
Helen Rowland

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.
Steve Irwin

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Maynard James Keenan

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W. H. Auden

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden

Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
Nancy Pelosi

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Chuck Norris

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
Chuck Norris

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.
Gwyneth Paltrow

America has everything, why should they want us.
George Harrison

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
Ann Coulter

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Ann Coulter

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
Tom Brokaw

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
Billy Bragg

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
Billy Bragg

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
Jerry Garcia

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
Jerry Garcia

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Marilyn vos Savant

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
Marilyn vos Savant

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
Mercy Otis Warren

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Mercy Otis Warren

America needs rebooting.
Thomas Friedman

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
Richard Pryor

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
Richard Pryor

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
Maureen O'Hara

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
Walter Cronkite

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
Walter Cronkite

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.
Greta Garbo

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Dick Gregory

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 against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
Barbara Jordan

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 harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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 each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
Barbara Jordan

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 party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Barbara Jordan

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 fulfill the promise of America.
Barbara Jordan

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 be finally closed. We believe that.
Barbara Jordan

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
Barbara Jordan

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
Galen Rowell

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
Dan Quayle

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
Dan Quayle

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Dan Quayle

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
Tony Blair

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Rick Warren

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
Stephen Ambrose

I'd never been content in America.
Julie Christie

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.
Julie Christie

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.
Julie Christie

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.
Julie Christie

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
William Jennings Bryan

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
James Monroe

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
Billy Connolly

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
Sarah Palin

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
Sarah Palin

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.
Sarah Palin

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.
Sarah Palin

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
Sarah Palin

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.
Sarah Palin

But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!
Kid Rock

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
Alistair Cooke

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
Alistair Cooke

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Susan Sontag

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan Sontag

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
Sean Connery

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
Allen Ginsberg

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
Eric Clapton

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.
Eric Clapton

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
Martin Sheen

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
Allen Ginsberg

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.
Mike Myers

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
Mike Myers

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Russell Baker

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Russell Baker

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
Georgia O'Keeffe

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Sinclair Lewis

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
William J. Clinton

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
William J. Clinton

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
Allen West

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
Allen West

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
Richard Attenborough

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
Erica Jong

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.
Angela Merkel

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
Tony Campolo

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
Tony Campolo

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
Arthur Erickson

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur Erickson

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
Thomas Beecham

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
Wilfrid Laurier

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
Johnny Rotten

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
Bjork

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Harold Pinter

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.
Jerry Falwell

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
Jerry Falwell

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
Condoleezza Rice

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
Jacqueline Bisset

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Barbara Bush

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Ken Kesey

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
Thomas E. Mann

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.
Geddy Lee

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
Agnes de Mille

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
David Byrne

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
Hakeem Olajuwon

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
Michael Bloomberg

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Michael Bloomberg

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
Michael Bloomberg

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Christopher Dodd

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
Christopher Dodd

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.
Glenn Beck

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.
Glenn Beck

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.
Glenn Beck

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
Anthony Hopkins

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
Anthony Hopkins

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
Glenn Beck

To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.
Glenn Beck

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Henry James

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
Billy Crystal

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
Rachel Zoe

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
Orson Scott Card

America can't beat anyone anymore.
George Clooney

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
Roger Bannister

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan

In America the biggest is the best.
Roy Lichtenstein

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
Anthony Walton

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
Barack Obama

I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.
Barack Obama

In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.
Barack Obama

That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
Barack Obama

This is America, where everything is still possible.
John Edwards

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.
Herman Cain

The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
Herman Cain

Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!
Herman Cain

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo

Stupid people are ruining America.
Herman Cain

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
John Abizaid

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
Spike Lee

America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live.
Rick Allen

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.
Rick Allen

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
Robert Duvall

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
Marlene Dietrich

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
Marlene Dietrich

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene Dietrich

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu


I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
Lafcadio Hearn

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
Lafcadio Hearn

America is huge.
Ace Frehley

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
Oliver North

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
Norman Jewison

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.
Norman Jewison

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
Jay Leno

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!
Jay Leno

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.
Kim Il-sung

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
Oliver North

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
James Carville

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
Nikita Khrushchev

America has always imported history.
Helmut Jahn

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.
Helmut Jahn

Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
Andrew Cohen

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
Billy Sunday

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
John L. Lewis

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
John L. Lewis

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
John L. Lewis

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
David Bowie

In America everything's about who's number one today.
Bruce Springsteen

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.
Martin Yan

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
David Brin

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
William Dean Howells

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Martin Yan

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
Hassan Nasrallah
 

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