America Quotes - Page 198

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

America, to me, is freedom.

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.

Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.

The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.

It's never paid to bet against America.

Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.

Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule . . . It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.'

I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce.

IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURAL WEALTH

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.