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Quotes About America

The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.
~ Joe Manchin
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
~ Wesley Clark
At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.
~ Rachel Maddow
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
~ Howard Fineman
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.
~ Donald Hall
America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago
~ Tommy Franks
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Law enforcement personnel all over America are always among those first in line to aid in disasters.
~ Ann Rule
I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in America than anywhere else in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
~ Scott Westerfeld
Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.
~ Sebastian Barry
A deep and enduring economic crisis like the Great Depression of the 1930s, or a natural disaster that kills tens of thousands of people, might change America's fundamental calculus about economic justice. Until then, the American public will probably continue to refrain from broadly challenging both male and female corporate leaders who compensate themselves far in excess of their value to society. That
~ Sebastian Junger
A deep and enduring economic crisis like the Great Depression of the 1930s, or a natural disaster that kills tens of thousands of people, might change America's fundamental calculus about economic justice.
~ Sebastian Junger
The tragic history of Spanish America was ready to be written . . . in blood.
~ Selden Rodman
In the United States the rise of an extreme and highly ideological Right was driven by an unrelenting assault on liberals, portraying them as both "hating America" and hostile to business
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
Hell, sometimes it feels like the whole country is on fire. Like a constant conflagration is burning too close to all poor people. Shouldn't rich-ass America be taking care of everybody?
~ Sherman Alexie
It's a Belgian beer, sweetie. Please tell me you've at least heard of it. (Blaine) Boy, I was born in Brussels and the last time I checked, this was my new homeland, America, not my birthplace. So you can either order an American-made beer or I'll bring you water and you can sit there and act all superior until you puke, okay? (Aimee)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
~ D. H. Lawrence
As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.
~ D. James Kennedy
I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
~ Edward Kennedy
The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.
~ Milos Forman
I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.
~ Penelope Mitchell
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.
~ Randall Robinson
I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.
~ Richard Rodriguez