America Quotes - Page 104

America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.

Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention.

To me pornography is...spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.

Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.

May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

Everybody in America is angry about something.

I happen to believe in immigration reform but I don't believe that that means that every person who has come into America should be able to stay.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.