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Quotes About America

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.
~ Rush Limbaugh
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
~ Yvette Clarke
[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.
~ Kevin Sessums
This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.
~ Lonnie Bunch
The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.
~ Luiz Bolognesi
Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.
~ Todd Tiahrt
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
~ Mary McCarthy
We must muster the courage, we must find the will, we must do what is necessary to build a truly transformative movement that will end the history and cycle of caste in America.
~ Michelle Alexander
I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.
~ Mike Pence
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
~ Neil Gaiman
Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.
~ Gil Marks
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
~ Bryan Stevenson
But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.
~ Richard Rodriguez
We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.
~ Jeff Sessions
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
~ Jello Biafra
Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.
~ John Mellencamp
America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.
~ Chris Christie
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
~ Bob Casey, Jr.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
~ Mitt Romney
The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
~ James P. Cannon
America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
~ Mark Twain
I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
~ Anthony Hopkins
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.
~ Frank Schaeffer
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
~ Jerry Saltz