We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.
Joe BidenPublic education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.
Michelle ObamaIt’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.
Madeleine AlbrightEverything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob DylanAmerica is just downright mean.
Michelle ObamaThe glamour of it all! New York! America!
Charlie ChaplinAmerica is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham BellAfter a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
Barack ObamaAmerica’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.
Joe BidenThere is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Barack ObamaNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James BaldwinThere is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerFreedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerA diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Joe BidenAn asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard ShawOur brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
Barack ObamaWhen you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
George CarlinHere in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
Amy WinehousePeace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas JeffersonThe mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Hunter S. ThompsonI sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas JeffersonI have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
Anthony HopkinsIs there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?
Colin PowellThe great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.
Robert GreeneOur need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.
Brene BrownSo while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack ObamaAmerica is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.
Billy GrahamI have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. EisenhowerTo make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘
Muhammad AliLadies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.
Dave GrohlThe only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Bill GatesIn the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Brian EnoIf there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
Karl LagerfeldBecause of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
Madeleine AlbrightA little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander PopeI believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSelling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
Elon MuskJohn Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack ObamaThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine AlbrightNo matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
Anthony BourdainLet us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Ronald ReaganFrom 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.
Robert KiyosakiWithin the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
Herbert HooverAmerica’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
Joe BidenOh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.
Anthony BourdainThe fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle ObamaI will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.
George W. BushI continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
Alice WalkerAnd so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
Madeleine AlbrightAll great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald ReaganThe action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. BushThe amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Christopher HitchensAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy CarterIn Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
Pope FrancisI think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.
Henry KissingerI came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.
Elizabeth KennyLaughter is America’s most important export.
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