A Quotes
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“America must be burned! America is no good at all.”
“America must be in really bad shape if you elected me president. You better get it together and find some other qualified people to run this country or we'll all be in big trouble.”
Source: The Kid Who Ran for President
“America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.”
“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.”
“America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.”
“America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq”
“America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits from the pain and suffering of their fellow citizens. America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide tax-supported universal health care coverage in some form.”
Source: Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines
“America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.”
“America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.”
“America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
“America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.”
“America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.”
“America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.”
“America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.”
“America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.”
“America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.”
“America needs a military where our breast and brightest are proud to serve.”
“America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.”
“America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.”
“America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.”
“America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.”
“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.”
Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .”
Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
“America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.”
“America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.”
“America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.”
“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.”
“America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.”
“America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul.”
“America needs rebooting.”
“America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours.”
“America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.”
“America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons.”
“America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.”
“America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.”
“America needs to be secure at home and abroad.”
“America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.”
“America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.”
“America needs to know this story because our Constitution is being attacked, our freedom threatened, innocent people are being framed and murdered, and the outlaw motorcycle club culture is on the verge of extinction.” – Jeff “Twitch” Burns, Patriot Gangster: Volume 1, Evolution of an Outlaw”
Source: Patriot Gangster: My Experience As One Of The Most Influential Outlaw Motorcycle Club Members In American History. Volume 2: The Enforcer
“America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...”
“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.”
“America never quite mastered the art of radio theatre, so when I think of radio drama, I think Radio 4 and Radio 4 extra.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!”
Source: The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
“America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.”
“America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.”
“America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.”