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Quotes About America

I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory.
~ Sean Booth
When Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, Britain expected that America would soon lose heart and surrender, too. From then on, London's chief aims were to bring a swift conclusion to the war and capture as much territory as possible in order to gain the best advantage in the inevitable peace talks.
~ Amanda Foreman
If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.
~ William J. Clinton
The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Key to America's success in ending the War on Terror will be a continued partnership with one of our most important allies - Israel.
~ Ronny Jackson
Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
~ Harold Hamm
America is so afraid of terror and terrorism to the point that they don't allow people to move around freely and see what they wish to see. I really wish to see the whole of America, if it is possible.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.
~ John Ashcroft
I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
~ Nelson DeMille
The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.
~ Donald Trump
I wouldn't call it America's war on terror. Terrorism is our own fight as well, and if it coincides with the American agenda or the international agenda, well, that's fine.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be covered as such.
~ Anthea Butler
For decades, I have watched neoconservatives paint those who oppose their interventionism as appeasers of dictators standing in solidarity with socialists, soft on Russia, naive about terrorism, lacking moral clarity and unappreciative of America's unique role in the world.
~ Ro Khanna
Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
~ Ian McShane
America's economy is resilient, and I am confident that Republican pro-growth policies will continue to keep our economy growing - just as it has since after the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
~ Dennis Hastert
Empty political space will be filled by extremists unless the United States and its allies build strong local forces that can suppress terrorist groups and warlords both. When the U.S. creates such local forces, it must be persistent. If it withdraws from these efforts, as America did in Iraq in 2011, it invites mayhem.
~ David Ignatius
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Withdrawing federal funds to prevent radiological or biological terrorist attack - that doesn't just hurt Los Angeles: that hurts America.
~ Eric Garcetti
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
~ Rahm Emanuel
There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that's probably another reason I don't go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It's boring, dull, very lazy writing.
~ Art Malik
If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I think most of us in America want our security. There're so many people out there that are fearful and now with this realization of immigration, with the terrorists, we need to have better checks and balances in regards to who's emigrating into our country.
~ Jan Brewer
What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats.
~ John McCain