America Quotes
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.Peter Ustinov
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.George Bernard Shaw
I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.Kevin Rooney
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them - which - we are missing.Gamal Abdel Nasse
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.William Safire
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.Albert Einstein, 1929
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca - Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards.Lizzy Gardine
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.Peter Kropotkin
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.David Dean Rusk
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear - Cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.Gamel Abdel Nasse
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.Jesse Louis Jackson
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.John Dickinson
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
This American system of ours... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.Al Capone
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.C. H. Cooley
America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.David Frost
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide - Open spaces surrounded by teeth.Charles Luckman
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Margot Asquith
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.Lyndon B. Johnson
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un - American act that could most easily defeat us.William Orville Douglas
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.George Will
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.Charles Darwin
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.Tony Blai
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
