Quotes About America

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.

The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.

I have a unique lens on how the extreme priorities of the NRA's leaders are dangerous for America, Atlanta and communities of color.

Our first priority should be to protect the homeland. If we don't, a future generation might ask, 'Who lost America?'

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

'Lockup,' inside America's supersize prisons on MSNBC, is one of my favorite shows. I get a lot of my inspiration for Blair Waldorf from that show.

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids?

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.

It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.

I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.