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America Quotes


"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing."


"I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days."


"I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model."


"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."


"I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place."


"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."


"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."


"This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America."


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


"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""



"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."


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


"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 went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."


"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."


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


"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."


"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."


"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."


"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."


"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."


"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."


"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."


"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."
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