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America Quotes


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."


"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."


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


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


"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."


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


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


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


"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."


"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."


"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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