America Quotes (7994 Quotes)

It is our calling to recapture the lost independence and sovereignty of our republic, to clean up all that pollutes our culture, and to heal the soul of America,

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

Why are these two men afraid They should overcome their fear of facing new ideas and alternative voices, and open the process for the American people,

America supports you. You are the greatest fighting force on the planet.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

at an important moment in American history when our need to safeguard military secrets has never been more critical.

For two decades, the name of the author, Duncan Hines, was etched on the biting edge of the American appetite. the best known and most purposeful vagabond.

What is not legitimate -- and what I will again say is dishonest and reprehensible -- is the suggestion by some U. S. senators that the president of the United States or any member of his administration purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence,

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

The U. S. Supreme Court has looked at this, the Florida Supreme Court has looked at this. Basically they end up saying, 'Let's count the ballots.' I don't want partisan party line votes in the House or the Senate determining this, it should be the voters of America that determine it.

Nearly one-third of children in America are either obese, overweight or at risk. This has been a problem which has been growing over the past 20 years.

This is one small way we can acknowledge and thank the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen whose service helps to preserve the freedom and safety of every American. It's important to all of us at Anheuser-Busch that we show our gratitude to the men and women of our armed forces and their families for the sacrifices they make on our behalf.

The flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight, but any suggestion that prewar information was distorted, hyped or fabricated by the leader of the nation is utterly false, ... Senator John McCain put it best 'It is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people.'

With their sharp decline in market share, they have frankly got too much capacity, too many plants, too many people to be profitable in North America.

At a time when America is leading the world in the war on terrorism and spending billions of dollars to secure our homeland, we cannot cede control of strategic assets to foreign nations with spotty records on terrorism.

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

In other countries where biking is as common as driving, motorists feel like they don't belong on the road. They travel slow and cautiously. Here in America, we feel that we have the right to the road and the cyclists are slowing us down. ... We have to get out of that way of thinking.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

Despite the proliferation of miracle fixes such as this Stone Age diet, the US population continues to be more walrus than warrior, with Britain not far behind. Seriously obese people will soon be as common a sight here as they are in America and fad diets won't help them, ... If you want to lose weight long term you have to think in terms of preparing and eating delicious vegetable stews and salad dressings. It's tedious. It's boring. But it works.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

We are paying for the strong level of the euro. An American would think twice before coming to France on holiday.

If you think Social Security reform is the third rail of American politics, try coming out for gay marriage. It's a far more powerful issue.

In spite of the Dow Jones industrial average over 10,000, a growing economy, in spite of all those things to our credit, you and I know that there is something wrong in America.

In terms of stocks, GE is the biggest problem today, as is the American automobile sector. You've got Ford trading at 7 a share, that's practically bankruptcy level for a company that is not in danger of declaring bankruptcy. And when GE, one of the great, major companies of the world is down, it has a big impact on the psychology.

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

This is the only chance the American people, all the American people, have to see what he is, ... It is the only chance, no matter what part of the country you are from, no matter who you are, this is the only time you get a chance to see - this is the person who is going to be given the power to protect my rights, so it is important to do it well.

The bill will do more damage to people than good, especially in rural America. People will be forced to sell their land for federal land acquisition.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

(Judge) Simon Cowell said I was a nice guy with a nice voice, ... But he said I was not an American Idol.

Customers in nearly a third of American households make at least half their long-distance calls at home from their cell phones rather than their more reliable and often cheaper land lines.

Church-state separation. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Roberts whether he believed in the separation of church and state as set forth in the First Amendment. She quoted President John F. Kennedy as having said in 1960, I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. ... My question is Do you

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

The mutual-beneficial cooperation between China and Brazil and their joint efforts in seeking common prosperity will not only benefit the interests of the two peoples but also have a profound impact on the development of Asia and the Latin America,

America the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

We all know the president's behavior has been reprehensible. President Clinton, however, refuses to admit what all of us know is true. To this day, he continues to deny and distort. He continues to dispute the undeniable facts that are before the Senate and before the American people.

This is like wartime. And all the poor, all the working poor who live from paycheck to paycheck. This is America. This is the richest country in the world. I can't sleep at night.

Texas 17 is one of the most competitive districts in America. Van Taylor is a great candidate for Republicans in a district that belongs to Republicans.

When we give what we can and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

The government's success in preventing another catastrophic attack on the American homeland in the 20 months since September 11, 2001 would have been much more difficult, if not impossibly so, without the USA Patriot Act,

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

So far, the Pentagon in Washington has said 'we cannot understand this.' We cannot understand this either, but we have reiterated our wish to the American authorities.

I'd tell them 'You stop persecuting Christians. You stop threatening my country or you guys have sold your last pair of chopsticks in any mall in the United States of America.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

He wants the country to succeed and he wants this Republican majority to govern. And it's his sense that trying to put this behind us, and moving ahead with the business of the American people should be a top priority.

To make the economic impact that I think Indiana's capable of we have to do a lot of things large and small, ... We weren't labeled the Crossroads of America for nothing.