America Quotes - Page 324

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

John Lewis did more in one day on The Edmund Pettus Bridge than Donald Trump ever will do to make America great again.

I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, and the Stock Act. It is important to investigate whether there are financial levers, not just Russia - China, the Emirates. Because he will never make America great again - I don't believe he ever will, but he will not do so if he's beholden to.

The bottom line is if the president [Barack Obama] really wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, maybe his Justice Department should stop releasing felons, many of which are illegal immigrants, only to the streets of America.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

You're entitled in this country to worship as you please or to not worship. It's one of the great things that defines us as a nation, and it's at the heart of what it is to be in America.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

Look, America was a narrowly divided country in 2000;49-49 was what Michael Barone called it. It's a 49-49 nation.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

I think people that are, you know, voting in the blind are doing a disservice to America by not being better informed.