Quotes About America

America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.

Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

There's so much stuff in America that is very shameful. It's stuff that I can't endorse, but I still perform there.

By sheer luck, we did our first tour of America as a headlining act.

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

My book is basically a love letter to America.

It'd be nice to say that American media doesn't hate this country.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I was born in London, and my family is here. America is an interesting place, but it's incredibly different culturally. It doesn't take long being there before I want to get back.

I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

The American people," Small added, "must understand that as soon as America doesn't stand for something in the world, there is going to be a tremendous erosion of freedom.

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer worlds. Jefferson believed Williamsburg the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in America.

Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

In the charged and complicated spheres of identity, politics, philosophy, and power in America, though, racism was not situational but systemic.

Johnson said: "John Kennedy's death commands what his life conveyed—that America must move forward. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation's bloodstream.

Gerould observed: "America is no longer a free country, in the old sense; and liberty is, increasingly, a mere rhetorical figure….The only way in which an American citizen who is really interested in all the social and political problems of his country can preserve any freedom of expression, is to choose the mob that is most sympathetic to him, and abide under the shadow of that mob.