Best America Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.”

Thinking Sometimes Whole America Bits Nice One Thing Groups Dog Discipline Musical British Alternatives Soulless

Author:Jon Lord

“In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”

America Young Pieces Heard South Heroic Misunderstanding Symphony Conductor South America

Author:Kurt Masur

“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.”

World America Strong One Thing Weak

Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.”

Doe America Disappear Empires American Empire

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.”

Stills America Past Values Program Determination Responsible Formulas Past Success

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.”

Ifs America Military Financial Burden British Massive Rejected Maintaining Militarism Colonists Financial Burden

Author:Rachel Maddow

“So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.”

Art Ideas Happens America Film Next Fantasy Sticks Vague High Art Vague Ideas

Author:Radha Mitchell

“Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.”

Eye America Life Is Turns Difficult Blind Silent Customers Corporate Passive Spirals Corporate America Blind Eyes Downward Spiral

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.”

America Guy Europe Other Guys

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.”

Want America

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.”

People Thinking Want Kind Stills Care America Opportunity Cities Violence Take Care Educated Get Back Aspire Workforce

Author:Michael Nutter

“They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'”

Mean Said America Film Cutting Finals Makers Harvey Arkansas

Author:Mira Nair

“I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.”

America Germany Switzerland Madrid Malaysia

Author:Parminder Nagra

“Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.”

Important Helping Government Jobs America Numbers Environment Failing Succeed Creator Federal Government Small Business Job Creators

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.”

People America Given Term Gone Four Cutting Taxes Congress Scales Income Relief Tax Cuts

Author:Richard Neal

“If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.”

Ifs Stills America Guilty Misunderstanding Misgivings

Author:Ron Fournier

“From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.”

Thinking Want Running America Vision Issues Heard

Author:Barbara Olson

“Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.”

May America Presidency Palin

Author:Ron Fournier

“I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.”

School America Born College High School Moved Finished Nigeria Indiana

Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.”

Years Long Said Hard America Views Optimism Cycles Pessimism Realism

Author:Ron Fournier

“If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.”

Ifs Long Wanted America Term Radical Long Term Sugar Salt Radical Change

Author:Jamie Oliver

“You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.”

Want America Novel Particular Cricket Preoccupation Unspeakable

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.”

America Class Economy Middle Economics Disaster Ships Middle Class Spells Romney

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.”

Facts Problem Jobs America Moving President Loss Economy Bigger Deeper President Obama Franklin Great Depression Predecessors Job Loss Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Author:Martin O'Malley

“It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.”

People Country Hard Dream Bigs America Hard Work Extraordinary Appeals Pulling Presidency Bootstraps

Author:Ron Fournier

“President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?”

America Nations President Community Middle Connected Debate President Obama Pulling Casting Counting Rugged Bootstraps

Author:Ron Fournier

“I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.”

Thinking America Lines Accepting Poverty Allowing Engaging Paychecks Piracy

Author:Will Oldham

“From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.”

America Brother Native Native American Brothers And Sisters Arrivals

Author:Jared Polis

“In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?”

People Firsts Age America Certain Asks House Shots Catchers

Author:Marisha Pessl

“The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.”

World Whole Funny America Tvs Whole World Watching Tv

Book:Everything But Money: A Life of Riches

Source: Everything But Money: A Life of Riches

“America is great, because America is free.”

America Politics

Author:Dan Quayle

“The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.”

People World America Belief Prove Jew Stations Shade Organize Nationality

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.”

America Night Force Military West Jew Israel Billions Germany Equipment Day And Night Unprecedented West Germany Military Equipment

Author:George Scratchley Brown

“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.”

“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'”

Years Firsts Wanted America House Party Company Married Daughter Jew Firm Patriotic Founders Millionaire Clerks American Patriotic House Of Commons Grand Daughter

Author:Denis Fahey

“In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.”

People Years Firsts War America Fashion Periods Cost Europe Jew Israel Eras Posts Spite Southern Eastern Ukraine Unprecedented Poland Post War Southern Africa

Author:Denis Fahey

“I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.”

People Thinking America Choices Stuff Voice Technology Changed Serious Healthy Organization Good People

Author:Brian Lamb

“Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.”

America Differences Poor Records Economic Barack Pessimism Jimmy Carter

Author:David Limbaugh

“A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.”

America President Greatness Notion Determined Chiefs Rejects Executives Restoration Chief Executives

Author:David Limbaugh

“Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.”

America Nations Greater Promise Office Commitment Optimism Performances Currents Ran Contrast Platforms Abandonment Pledge Brighter Brighter Days

Author:David Limbaugh

“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

Ifs Doe Stills Matter Would Be America Young Particular Color Advantage Skins Privilege Tone Wheels Celebration Whiteness Skin Tone Color Wheel

Author:Eric Liu

“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”

Knows Firsts Seems Would Be America Nations Perfect Leader Class Imagine Students College Citizens Creating Notion Absurd Supposed To Be Sat Diverse Composition Filling

Author:Eric Liu

“America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.”

Country Government America Humanity Support Stem European Countries Central Government It Support

Author:Jim Leach

“America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.”

Thinking Doe America Bigger Relate Our Society Arena Governance Great Leader Great Leadership

Author:Jim Leach

“I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.”

Thinking Want America Political Violence Approach Dialogue Uplifting Divides Political Dialogue

Author:Jim Leach

“There are conservative people in all colours in America.”

People America Conservative Colour

Author:Adepero Oduye

“The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.”

World Happens America Actors Cases Movie Filmmaking Mecca

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.”

America Literature Five Minutes Five Minutes

Author:Clarke Peters

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