Quotes About America

Naturally, people — especially in America — live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

Hollywood flicks are fun, if your idea of a good time is a hamburger and a milk shake. America invented the movies so it would never need to grow up. We have angst, depression and middle-aged regret. They have Hollywood.

I had, of course, witnessed hundreds of people in a casino before, mindlessly dropping coins into slot machines. They don't play for money in America. It's true. The big payout is incidental to most gamblers. It's the numbness they're after. Not so in China. No one had that look of glazed stupor often found in American casinos.

Never be on the bear side but on the bull side when the United States is in question.

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

the factory-owners and traders, grew stronger as a result of the new trade frontiers in America, Africa and the Far East.

My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed off at America. Society. American movies. American TV. American culture. American politicians. Capitalism. I'm a little like my old man in that way only I'm a recovered drunk. He wasn't. I should have been dead years ago like my brother but somehow I dodged the bullet and it gave me something to say. Impatience and rage are always just beneath the surface for me.

Our beautiful and spacious skies, Mom and picnics, apple pies. Dig our amber waves of grain, Purple mountains, fruited plain. Broad stripes and bright stars, Super Bowls and fast cars. To the republic for which it stands, Now it's time to all join hands. "Star-spangled banners wave

Despite the many cinematic qualities of life in America, this country is not a film. It lacks the real-time clarity and cohesive story-telling that makes a silver-screen epic so palatable. Instead, it is a muddy, confused, noisy, unwieldy thing that we are forced to come to grips with after the fact and often erroneously.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

Recently we have seen a level of public protest unlike anything we have witnessed in decades. Dissent is about marching, and making one's voice heard in the streets and at the ballot box. But at the same time, there are strong voices calling this dissent unpatriotic and dangerous. We cannot let the forces of suppression win. America works best when new thoughts can emerge to compete, and thrive, in a marketplace of ideas.

Make no mistake: We are being tested. Without a vibrant, fearless free press, our great American experiment may fail.

It should be clear to our political leaders that a new energy strategy could be the next technological revolution America could lead. But we are ceding the momentum to others such as China. Our planet and our national prosperity are already suffering from the decline in our leadership.

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

Here, as in most of art history, 'International' refers only to the West, and in this particular case to Europe since America was not really known about when this work was made.

The Beloved One going off to America and getting himself killed. The Defiant One trying to invent a flying machine. And now the Wild One, vandalizing statues and ruining innocent young women. The duke might be the devil's kin, but Crawley didn't envy His Grace The Wicked One one bit.

In terms of cost and effectiveness, the air force tenets were simply wrong. In any case, only Britain and America had really prepared themselves in the way of designing heavy bombers for long-range heavy bombardment. And this was not a response to Hitler's aggressions; it started well before Hitler came to power.

Americans love complaining about bloated governments—but America's sales force outnumbers the entire federal workforce by more than 5 to 1.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have now fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.