Quotes About America

Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.

I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.

In Washington, there is a way to have disagreements and debates, which is so healthy, but a way to be friends at the end of the day, which I believe is the essence of America.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.

Donald Trump did not cause America's democratic crisis of faith, he rode to power on it. Once in control, he and other populists discovered their room for manoeuvre was expanded by the same disillusionment that helped them into office.

I saw Trump as a necessary force to disrupt a broken system that was no longer serving the American people.

I think Donald Trump has put America in great danger, and I think he's done a disservice to us even if he doesn't win. I think his effect is going to be kind of lasting.

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.

Carving out our own role, distinct from America's, might not be easy. But we must ask ourselves: what alternative is there? Unthinking, uncritical loyalty to the U.S. under Donald Trump is a far less appealing idea.

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.

America seems much more diverse and has more exciting casting - they really take risks.

I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country.

I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is.

We're a country of many different cultures, and that's always what has made this country stand out. It almost feels like making diverse movies is the most American thing you can do.

I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.