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America Quotes


"Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing."


"I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms."


"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."


"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well."


"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."


"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad."


"But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone."


"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."


"Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?"


"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation."


"Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable."


"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."


"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."


"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."


"I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up."


"America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty."


"Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America."


"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."



"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America."


"There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold."


"We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America."


"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free."


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


"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."


"I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?"


"We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States."


"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it."



"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."


"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever."


"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."
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