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Quotes About America

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
~ Goldwin Smith
Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.
~ Ving Rhames
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.
~ Aarti Sequeira
I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
~ Koo Stark
For those in America, ITV is the biggest channel in the UK and they are getting wrestling on that station on New Year's Eve.
~ Marty Scurll
If any country deserves American support, Ukraine does.
~ Brandon Webb
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
~ Barry Marshall
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.
~ Niger Innis
The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it will never be the same afterward.
~ Richard Cohen
I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.
~ Ryan Zinke
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.
~ Ezra Stiles
The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America - a marvelous country. But in a sense I don't worry about America because I think America has such huge strengths - particularly its freedom of thought and expression - that it's going to survive as a top nation for the foreseeable future.
~ Paul Johnson
You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.
~ Dan Crenshaw
For many Americans the term 'speech code' sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.
~ Kirsten Powers
This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It's part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.
~ Terrell Suggs
A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.
~ William Lacy Clay, Jr.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
~ Barbara Mikulski
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
~ Michael Bennet
Entering the country illegally is bad enough, but to then commit crimes against innocent Americans is completely unacceptable.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
~ Tom Ford
It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.
~ David Limbaugh