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Quotes About America

God does not take sides in American politics, and in America disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.
~ George Mitchell
The country that always modeled social mobility for the rest of the world has become more class-ridden than recent aristocracies like Austria and Japan.
~ George Packer
Bush himself came into office with no curiosity about the world, only a suspicion that his predecessor had entangled America in far too many obscure places of no importance to national interests. Wolfowitz
~ George Packer
England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America.
~ George Santayana
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
~ George Santayana
Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation. But Americans, being a practical people, also want their foreign policy to be effective.
~ George Shultz
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
~ George Soros
As my father once explained to me, our "rights" are only as strong as the democracy that protects them. Because we are a people's democracy here in America, as great as the people of this country can be, but also as fallible, we must stay ever vigilant in the face of any "tyranny" of the majority, no matter the stated objective.
~ George Takei
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
~ George W. Bush
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
~ George W. Bush
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
~ George W. Bush
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
~ George W. Bush
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
~ George W. Bush
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
~ George W. Bush
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.
~ George W. Bush
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.
~ George W. Bush
For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.
~ George W. Bush
If you're a single mother with two childrenwhich is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concernedyou're working hard to put food on your family.
~ George Walker Bush
No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.
~ George Washington
We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.
~ George Washington
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
~ George Washington
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
~ George Will
By the way, there is nothing, absolutely nothing at all, that assures me that white America's collective future will be any different than a miserable failure when it comes to facing the existential necessity of addressing and eradicating white racism.
~ George Yancy
America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
~ Georges Clemenceau