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America Quotes



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


"Historically, America has answered to a higher authority."


"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."


"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."


"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."


"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."



"Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks."


"Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America."


"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."


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


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


"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide."


"Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America."


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


"I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador."


"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."



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


"Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs."


"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."


"We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities."


"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."


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



"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."



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