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Quotes About America

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.
~ Rick Perry
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
~ Robert Henri
All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.
~ Ron Suskind
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
~ Susan George
A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.
~ Susan Jacoby
There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.
~ Tom Vilsack
There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.
~ Warren Buffett
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
~ Will Oldham
I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.
~ William J. Clinton
[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.
~ Junot Diaz
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
~ Kevin Costner
I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
~ Kim Wilde
I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.
~ M. Ward
I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.
~ Marco Rubio
America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
~ Marjane Satrapi
This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.
~ Mitt Romney
Iran is the greatest national security threat America faces. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this.
~ Mitt Romney
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
~ Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
~ Mark Twain
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
~ Mark Twain
I will conclude this chapter with a remark that I am sincerely proud to be able to make—and glad, as well, that my comrades cordially endorse it, to wit: by far the handsomest women we have seen in France were born and reared in America. I feel now like a man who has redeemed a failing reputation and shed luster upon a dimmed escutcheon, by a single just deed done at the eleventh hour. Let the curtain fall, to slow music.
~ Mark Twain
heir did go to America, with the Fairfax heir or about the same time—but disappeared—somewhere in the wilds of Virginia, got married, end began to breed savages for the Claimant
~ Mark Twain
Ours is the "land of the free" — nobody denies that — nobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.]
~ Mark Twain