Quotes About America

I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting pot of America.

One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

It's hard to imagine a time when lobster pots weren't part of a well-equipped kitchen, but America's love affair with the two-clawed crustaceans didn't start until the 1800s.

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

I believe in the Constitution.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

If the Muslim is Sharia-compliant, that is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution.

In America, we must always place constitutional values over authoritarian control.

I think that, in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don't believe that it really is. And so it's still a very racialized society.

I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

I'd never been content in America.