America Quotes - page 15

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples. (Samuel P. Huntington)
Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know? View quote
Ryan Reynolds
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Poetry and the arts can't exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. View quote
Lester Bangs
We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. View quote
Al Gore
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake. View quote
Al Gore
The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America. (Muammar Gaddafi)
Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them.... I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" View quote
Morrissey
America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all." View quote
Alberto Gonzales
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. View quote
Robert Fripp
If the national park idea is the best idea America ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea. View quote
Wallace Stegner
America, to me, is freedom. View quote
Willie Nelson
I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India, and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world. View quote
George W. Bush
America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. (George W. Bush)
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. View quote
George W. Bush
If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just - I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective. View quote
George W. Bush
If you're a single mother with two children-which is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concerned-you're working hard to put food on your family. View quote
George W. Bush
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse