Quotes About America

Excess has impaired perspective in America.

Lindbergh's America Firsters, and the Nazi-run fifth columnists

Perhaps Germany will serve as a warning," said Arvid. "May they learn from us to snuff out fascism in America when the first sparks arise and not delay until democracy goes up in flames all around them." "This could never happen in America. A nation that elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never elect a madman populist.

You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.

Remember when another heir called a certain red-haired actress a fire-crotch on camera? No? Well, I remember. Redheads across America sucked in a collective gasp, because we knew . The jokes boys made to us about Raggedy Ann, the Wendy's girl, and Pippi Longstocking would finally stop, as we'd always hoped, only to be replaced by something infinitely worse.

I'm like America " he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. "What are you talking about " she said. "Are you off your meds " "Our hands are dirty " Jules said.

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is,

You get out," Foley said, "you're free, they can't deport you?" "Fidel won't take us back." "You glad you came to America?" "I'm grateful for the ways they are to improve myself since I come to La Yuma. I respect how justice wears a blindfold, like a fucking hostage.

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor?

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America.

ON THE night of December 21, 1919, together with two hundred and forty-eight other political prisoners, I was deported from America. Although it was generally known we were to be deported, few really believed that the United States would so completely deny her past as an asylum for political refugees, some of whom had lived and worked in America for more than thirty years.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America

In America the rich man's objective never will be to make the poor man rich.

Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation.

Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.

Lyons's views on America were generally in keeping with those of the Foreign Office: he was well disposed to its people, but he thought that democracy made the government weak and handed too much power to the violent and ignorant elements of society.

Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.

I'm not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.

Page 210 Indeed, precisely because American society is so wealthy overall, America has come to occupy the role of a starkly market-dominant minority vis-à-vis the rest of world. We are now the object of intense resentment, even hatred, spurred by globalization.

Without taking anything away from their important contributions across the globe, U.S. elites often seem to have more compassion for the world's poor than America's poor, perhaps because the former are easier to romanticize.

America's elites today, especially progressive ones, often don't realize how judgmental they are.

America's elites miscalled the 2016 election in part because they don't understand—even look down on—what matters most to America's nonelites.

This what's so peculiar about America. We have been both exceptionally racist and exceptionally inclusive.