Quotes About America

Until Puerto Rico is decolonized, American democracy will not be complete.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

America is saying, we want to have justice and safety and end inequalities. And we don't want fancy candidates.

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.

To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

Illinois has every reason to succeed. We have the hardest-working people in America, the best infrastructure in America, and the best location of any state.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

There is so much inequality and injustice in America, and COVID-19 has exposed that even more. We have to really understand that this is a wake up call; this is a time of action.

I think America's strength is in innovation.