Quotes About America

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.

It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

The cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.

But on this 50th anniversary of the Little Rock crisis, it is important to remember that this evil did happen in America, and that no engineered redemption can make us innocent again. And we might also remember that it is better to be chastened than innocent.

America must reduce its fiscal deficit, modernize its infrastructure, and improve its schools.

What does everyone in America own? A car. What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.