America Quotes
Well, it looks like the all - Star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.Jerry Coleman
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.William Safire
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.A. E. Housman
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.Marya Mannes
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.Reubin Askew
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.David Frost
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein, 1929
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.Herbert Clark Hoove
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.Tom Lehre
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.John Updike, Problems and Other Stories
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.Gerald R. Ford
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.Camille Paglia
And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.John F. Kennedy
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.Theodore Roosevelt
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.Marlene Dietrich
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.Andy Rooney
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well - wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.John Quincy Adams
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.H. L. Mencken
I let the American people down.Richard Milhous Nixon
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.Woody Allen
America is not like a blanket - - One piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - - Many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.Henry M. Jackson
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - And that yardstick is Is it good for America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.James T. Farrell
If I were to select a jack - Booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF.John Dingell
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
