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America Quotes


"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing."


"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."


"The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."


"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."


"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."


"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."


"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."


"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."


"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."


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