Quotes About America

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Lidia, this is how America has to cook Italian." And with this wonderful book, she showed us all how.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.