America Quotes - Page 261

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists. We will utterly destroy ISIS.

What I'm looking forward to is changing the course America is on.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

I care a heck of a lot more about America than I do about any political party.

The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

I will tell you, as president, I'm not going to be neutral. America will stand unapologetically with Israel.

We don't have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America.

I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.

Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West or provocation coming from the West." And internally, it's unsettling the whole situation. Now in Tunisian, in Libya, in Syria, in Egypt, the clash between the literalists and - the Islamists or the reformists is something which is going to be part of what we have to deal with as to the future of America.

The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as citizens in the name of our common values. Our main contribution is to reconcile the American society with its own values, those that are not in contradiction to Islam. We have a duty of consistency.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.