America Quotes - Page 269

Our opponent [ Representative John Lewis] is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

The biggest difference as far as Muslims in Europe and America are concerned is that the number of Muslims in America is small compared to the number in Europe.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

What a glorious morning this is!

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death.

In my eyes, America seemed to have an unabashed sense of freedom and fun while England was a little bit more reserved. Truthfully, I pull very much from both places with so much to appreciate from each culture.

I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

As I noted to my colleagues in the Roberts' hearings, in a year between 80 percent to 90 percent of the children in America diagnosed with Down's Syndrome will be killed in the womb simply because they have a positive genetic test which can be wrong, and is often wrong, but they would have a positive genetic test for Down's Syndrome and they will be killed.America is poorer because of such a policy.

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.