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America Quotes


"The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America."


"I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."


"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."


"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."


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


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



"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world."


"If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it."


"Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America."


"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."


"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."


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


"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."


"I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers."


"One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America."


"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."


"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."


"I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines."


"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."


"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."


"Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British."


"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."


"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."


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


"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing."


"I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip."


"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"


"I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady."


"I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days."
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