Quotes About America

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to be black or Asian in America and not necessarily knowing what it's like, that's when everything gets mixed up.

The north-west coast of America is that mixture of beauty and savagery, which I felt was very similar to the Dorset coast.

We can decide to kneel to the mob and kneel to the state, cede all of our power over to the federal government, and then, you know, be confined to the ash heap of history. Or we can decide to come together and realize that we all want the same thing, which is a better America.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

Once you come to America, you're fighting top fighters. They're not going to let you get away with the guys you're fighting in England: you're going to have to fight constant monsters.

What's good for America is great for Montana.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.

America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.

In America, we have holidays and monuments that celebrate heroes from our past, most of whom have legacies that are settled.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

I think Marilyn Manson has a better take on America than Michael Moore and I don't think he's appreciated for his intellect.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.

Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.