Quotes on America

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.