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Quotes About America

This is the greatest economy in the HISTORY of America."29 Trump has told this lie over 250 times. Our economy was better under a number of other presidents, including Eisenhower, Johnson, and Clinton.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Sadly, the lack humility and expansive presence of pride in the words and deeds of Donald Trump make him unqualified to be president of the United States of America. He should not be given four more years to hold the highest political office in our land. Christians who ignore this not only undermine the present and future good of the nation, but also their witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
~ Ronald J. Sider
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.
~ Ronald Reagan
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.
~ Ronald Reagan
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
~ Ronald Reagan
the study of diversity is essential for understanding how and why America became what Walt Whitman called a "teeming nation of nations.
~ Ronald Takaki
the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation for political conservatism—has become the last outpost of Big Government paternalism in the United States. In
~ Rosa Brooks
America had once ruled the earth, he said. But it had never bothered to educate its people. So now it was a country of ignorant peasants, a noisy and stupid rabble.
~ Lydia Millet
There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.
~ Lynn Cullen
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
became a flood. In 1894 alone, some twelve hundred Rosetans applied for passports to America, leaving entire streets of their old village abandoned. The Rosetans began buying land on a rocky hillside connected to Bangor by a steep
~ Malcolm Gladwell
nineteenth century of the land of opportunity across the ocean.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
~ Benjamin Carson
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
~ Walter Russell Mead
In America, we celebrate success. We don't apologize for success.
~ Mitt Romney
There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.
~ Osama Alomar
Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.
~ John Lewis
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
~ John Doolittle
The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!
~ Rosie O'Donnell
Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just for jobs and spoils but for the right to define the nation's identity. In these conditions, democracy devolves into zero-sum group competition - pure political tribalism.
~ Amy Chua
This is the kind of China you Americans always see in the movies - the poor countryside, people wearing big hats to protect themselves from the sun. No, I never wore a hat like that! I was from Shanghai. That's like thinking someone from San Francisco wears a cowboy hat and rides a horse. Ridiculous!
~ Amy Tan
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
~ Anais Nin
Why did I feel warmed by imperfections, discomfort, and patina? Because intense living leaves scars, and I could not find such scars anywhere in America. Inner scars, softened, human wear and tear.
~ Anais Nin