America Quotes - page 21

To me, America is just another market. (Quentin Tarantino)
My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity. View quote
Masiela Lusha
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. View quote
John Muir
I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life. View quote
John Muir
America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines. View quote
Phil Ochs
HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes. View quote
Rick Warren
Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith. And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones. View quote
Rick Warren
But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody. View quote
Al Sharpton
I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world. View quote
Chuck Hagel
America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy. View quote
Ahmed Chalabi
...because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media. (Janeane Garofalo)
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple By the Relief Office I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me. View quote
Woody Guthrie
So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America ... but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's trying keep the Feds off her back. View quote
Chris Rock
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. View quote
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. View quote
Federico García Lorca
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment? View quote
Golda Meir
How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews. View quote
Golda Meir
Our opponent...is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. View quote
Sarah Palin
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. View quote
Sarah Palin
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House. View quote
Sarah Palin
Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I. (Sarah Palin)
We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America. View quote
Sarah Palin
Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act? View quote
Sarah Palin
America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska. View quote
Sarah Palin
The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige; and concentrate our united efforts towards solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America. View quote
Malcolm X