Quotes About America

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

It is time to show the whole world that America is back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before!

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.

What is going on in America today is not just a political contest; it is a spiritual contest.

The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in their craw, is the unacknowledged fact that America has never been an especially capitalist country. The postal system, the land grant provision for public education, the national park system, the Homestead Act, the graduated income tax, the Social Security system, the G.I. Bill -- all of these were and are massive distributions or redistributions of wealth meant to benefit the population at large.

Every day, as a Christian, I feel more deeply that the faith is slandered by those people who call America a Christian nation.

309Knee-high by the Fourth of July. So it must be June. Every farmhouse in its cloud of trees. There is a way trees stir before a rain, as if they already felt the heaviness. It all just went on and on, the United States of America. It was so easy to forget that most of the world was cornfields.

This country has been good to me.

Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.

America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream.

America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream, Dad was fond of commenting while standing with the freezer door open and inspecting every flavor of Ben and Jerry's, oblivious to the customers swarming around him, waiting for him to move.

You have to design your life like it's a fresh America. An unseen brave new world sits before you. Every. Single. Day. What are you going to do about it?

We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure to do so was blamed on the very notion of "limited war." America was fighting with one hand—or so the story went.