America Quotes - Page 178

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

[Hollywood] hates America.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.