Quotes About America

There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

What we get in the States is a pro-Palestinian point of view.

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.

Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.

When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

The collective memory of America is short.

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

For any band to make it in America is a colossal challenge and very few do because it takes time and so much money to tour endlessly.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

This is America, and everybody has the right to voice and to have an opinion and to have their commentary on things and people.

What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

That is what we stand for - for an America that is every bit as compassionate as it is exceptional.

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.