America Quotes - Page 205

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

All I want to do is to go to America, get married and start a new life.

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

In the past I've had public feuds with people, and I have really not benefited from any of them. The feud with Eminem did kind of torpedo my career in the United States, but it also introduced me to Middle America in a way I never could have conceived of.

I think anyone that comes to Nigeria has to offer value. What value are you bringing? There are Black Americans here. I think we've moved beyond that Africans vs. African Americans. They may have more issues with us than we do with them.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

China has to understand America wants to trade with them. We want a world that's stable. We like free enterprise, but you got to play by the rules.

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.

America is very important economically. It's certainly, by far, the most important country in the world.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn’t have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful.

Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel that leaves us with some revealing snapshots of America, both at war and in denial, and some telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood.

At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army. Haiti was ostracized for almost a century. Surviving in that international context is in itself a feat.

Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that religion, especially in America, because of freedom of religion.

I have been a huge fan of America, as I find their way of life there is pretty unique, and I have enjoyed a lot of good times over there.

Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

America stands for the land of opportunity.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

A lot of liberals don't believe in American exceptionalism, but it doesn't mean they don't love America.