America Quotes (7994 Quotes)

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known -- communism.

Hip hop is from the underground. It's from the underbelly of America. The poetry music is an expression from people from the trailers to the projects whose stories are not told.

Bank of America only has a limited retail network in China. Given the size of its investment in China Construction Bank, it is more important than the retail branches.

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

It's pretty conservative, but I think it's also realistic given the turmoil and the troubles present here in North America.

However, people still need to be aware she said, repeating advice her husband, President Bush, gave Americans last year. I do believe we're a safer nation. I really do, ... I think many Americans are vigilant, not only is our government ... but I think in general the American people are doing the same thing.

America has been in a state of fearfulness since Sept. 11 (2001) -- that fear has been able to squelch the debate -- if you're not with us, you're against us, says the administration. Americans should have responded more forcefully.

Japan and Korea dominate market volumes today, accounting for over 80 percent of TV phones sold in 2006. However, Western Europe and North America, as well as China, will be the hot spots for global volume growth over the next few years. We expect Western Europe to ramp up to over one million units sold this year, with North America and China coming online in 2007.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

a troubling new allegation which needs to be fully investigated at the time of the hearing. It's already an extremely troubling nomination because of her long-standing hostility to the basic rights of American workers.

I think President Bush and Secretary Powell are doing their best, but there must be some bridge to break the impasse. We must prioritize getting the release of the American soldiers who are, in fact, being held hostage.

We want to make that happen, but we want Fort Wayne to put a USHL team in the city, and that way we could throw it back at you. My thoughts are that if Indy is ever going to have another team at the pro level, it won't be me who is involved in it. The only thing I'm interested in are the American Hockey League or this level, and I don't think this market can support an AHL team.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Past Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said, America is fitted by tradition for directing and guiding revolutions. We won our freedom by revolution. ... Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral and afterwards in the material sphere.

I'm sure that some of these players eventually take away scholarships from American-born players. But it can also help a program like ours because some of the American players fall to us.

You made your decision,
chestnut, and leaped to earth,
burnished and ready,
firm and smooth
as the small breasts
of the islands of America.

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

Latin people also need the chance to you know have the American culture so we should have both sides of the anthem.

These crises may be surprising to some people, because in the popular mind, Latin America is not associated as much with food emergencies of the type we see in Africa.

He (Bush) should apologize. The vice president should apologize. They should come clean with the American public, ... This Week.

The greatest asset of America is to rally around a cause. That cause will have to come from leadership. Policy and action may be complicated, and changes certainly won't happen overnight, but we've got to start somewhere, and the first step is in creating interest that can turn into action.

You can call it the watch list, you can call it the select list, you can call it the no-fly list. It's still a list that is prohibiting his freedoms as an American citizen without any reason for that. He is not a fugitive, he is not a terrorist. And yet, he's on a list that he doesn't belong. That shouldn't happen in America. This is not the way we live our lives.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

Dr. Phil has become an American icon in record time and his series' ratings just keep getting stronger and stronger, ... Dr. Phil's popularity is still growing, and we're thrilled to know we'll be bringing stations this top-quality series well into the next decade.

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

American consumers spent nearly 10 billion more last week on energy than they did in the same week three years ago. That's not sustainable.

give new meaning to the American Dream.

The most important thing about being an American citizen is freedom. In America, no one controls you. There are big opportunities. You can do anything you want.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

This uranium issue is not just about 16 words in a speech. It is about whether administration officials made a conscious and very troubling decision to create a false impression about the gravity and imminence of the threat that Iraq posed to America.

Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay -- whatever the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

We hope to turn the American Airlines Center into Bud Walton South.

This is really a crime against the American people -- the people of the world. Three billion people have seen that movie. How could someone be so cruel

This statue is a glorified thing to have on my alma mater. It is here for the youth of America.

I'm sure they will be reviewing their portfolios. Most of them are in dollar-denominated assets. They'll want to see how vulnerable it is to the U. S. Congress. It'll be more difficult to finalize an investment proposal that involves an American bank or an American asset.

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

The easy answer is the fact that the source of cold air this winter tended to be more in Eurasia and not North America. So what we got was more Pacific air and not Arctic air.

It is an element of fairness, an element of opportunity. It basically says in America, we won't let you buy an election. If you're going to come in and try to do that, then you're at least going to give the other candidate a chance to compete.

We have a tendency to want them to be the American version of royalty, but at the same time, if they start dressing that way, we get really offended and very critical.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

We feel that we can see a modern lifestyle in those shows. American dramas also show the same kind of lifestyle. We know that South Korea and America have similar political systems and economies. But it's easier to accept that lifestyle from South Koreans because they are culturally closer to us. We feel we can live like them in a few years.