America Quotes - Page 309

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.

I do think Donald Trump has conservative instincts. I think he had anti-Obama instincts. I think he saw Obamacare, the Obama foreign policy, the Obama economic policies as harmful to America.

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost.

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

If your calling is media, if your calling is media, fine, if your calling is sports, whatever it is, but you've gotta be the greatest you can be now. Now. Before America is so completely altered and we're left with Hillary's brain, in the Oval Office, in a jar. Because that's what we're getting.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural literature - it was all things I was trying to do unsuccessfully in my poetry. It really just changed everything. I was introduced to authors like Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel García Márquez, Junot Díaz, and a lot of African American literature, as well.

If you love movies, then you love America.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.

One of the richest countries in the world - the United States of America - is facing a real ethical dilemma in terms of providing equitable access to health care.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort, and so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business I couldn't see that.