America Quotes - Page 259

The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the taxpayers unless they worked.

I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

America is interested in change and reform in the Middle East but in a stable way.

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

I could see America playing a slightly smaller role in the Middle East but I would not see us abandoning the region and just say "Oh," like I said, "China, Russia, it's yours now. Global focus is just on our hemisphere." I don't see that happening.

Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural gas and crude oil by a significant degree, that does have an exponential effect on producers in the Middle East, everything else being equal. But if China's demand is growing and India's demand is growing, they are not going back.

America needs rebooting.

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are not going to be happy campers. If you're stuck on the bottom and there just isn't much churning in society and you're stuck there through your adulthood, that's not a nice life to look forward to.

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

The American people abhor a vacuum.