Quotes About America

Our public lands - whether a national park or monument, wildlife refuge, forest or prairie - make each one of us land-rich. It is our inheritance as citizens of a country called America.

Perhaps this is what our national parks hold for us: stories, of who we have been and who we might become- a reminder that as human beings our histories harbor both darkness and light. To live in the United States of America and tell only one story, from one point of view, diminishes us all.

Where does America end and Mexico begin? This is its own country, borderless by nature, unowned, unbowed, complete. Boundaries are fears made manifest, designed to protect us. I don't want protection, I want freedom.

Evidently, selling off America's public lands is not only good for democracy, but good for the economy. It will pay the bills for building more roads and make up for the losses in the decline of timber sales. It will also help pay for the war in Iraq, a war predicted on lies. The outcry is faint. The streets are empty. We are comfortable here in the United States of America. We the people seem to be asleep, numb, and dead to the liberties being lost.

Cowperwood was shocked by the nudity of the Venus which conveyed an atmosphere of European freedom not common to America;

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I don't want America to be judged as God judged Sodom and Gomorrah.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

America was built on hard work and not complaining about stupid junk.

In America, I can just be glamorous, which is lovely. People are happy and accepting of exactly what it is I do.

A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry.

'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.

Most Americans don't know how beautiful an area of the country Kentucky is.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.