America Quotes - page 17

When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies. They blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they always blame America first. (Jeane Kirkpatrick)
Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian. View quote
Orson Welles
Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America... View quote
Orson Pratt
The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded? View quote
John Templeton
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. View quote
Camille Paglia
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. View quote
Camille Paglia
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me. View quote
Anchee Min
Do you remember campaigns like Keep America Beautiful? What about ‘buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let us be good industry that does 100% of what is possibly can-not grudgingly, but willingly. View quote
Indra Nooyi
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress. View quote
Joanna Russ
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. View quote
John Jay Chapman
Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now. (Ann Coulter)
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller. View quote
Norman Rockwell
The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty. View quote
Jerry Springer
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life. View quote
Marcus Garvey
If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. (Paul Robeson)
Vast quantities of U. S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism. View quote
Paul Robeson
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. View quote
Johan Huizinga
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats. View quote
Lee Iacocca