America Quotes - Page 132

Music is everything to me. Without music, I wouldnt be here in America now, and I would have been a completely different person. It made me who I am today.

Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

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.

You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'