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America Quotes


"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."


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


"That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America."


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


"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV."


"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"


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


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


"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."


"So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really."


"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."


"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."


"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."


"I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is."


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


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


"Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer."


"No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld."


"I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry."


"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship."


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


"In America everything's about who's number one today."


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


"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."


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


"There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them."
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