Quotes About America

One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.

Innovation and meritocracy was what America was based on.

We have kind of turned our back on the fact that hard work, sacrifice, risk-taking, innovation, is what made America great.

Of course, America's free-enterprise system is what enables our manufacturers to be the most innovative.

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

There's no insects in American cuisine? Not one? I don't think there are. That's so sad.

We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

America is so much more 'show business.' For instance, you have Barack Obama. We have Fredrik Reinfeldt. Everyone in the world knows Barack Obama!

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

We found a faith in America and a fierce determination to make our institutions work again as they have so often in our history.

America doesn't have health insurance.

If you have a chronic illness in America, there's a good chance you also hold a degree in Health Insurance 101, whether you want to or not.

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.

I look forward to making the Department of Interior and America great again.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.